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.

Brian