Re[2]: [tied] Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"
From: Brian M. Scott Message: 54870 Date: 2008-03-08
At 3:25:17 AM on Saturday, March 8, 2008, fournet.arnaud
wrote:
> From: Rick McCallister
>> Yes, but maybe the guy was a dork
> How do you translate *dork* ? into standard English ?
'An inept, foolish, or stupid person', more or less. It
overlaps with <jerk> and <nerd>, but it lacks <jerk>'s
connotation of nastiness and <nerd>'s connotation of
absorption in some intellectual pursuit.