skysaw wrote:
I think most societies contain a class of people we would call the "intelligentsia", but it is interesting to read about how the term originated with the Polish romantics - I never knew that.
I doubt they would have called themselves nerds considering the negative connotations surrounding that word these days!
I'm little bit of nerdy even more than a bit
and i'm proud of my nerdness, it's sad that people have in high contempt smart people, i'm not genius but i'm consider myself as very good educated especially in history and Kama Sutra
(but only in theory
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