I wonder how much of the difference between nerd and normie use of language just comes from whether you learned about people through speech or writing.
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In particular the sort of autistic precision nerds get very into (regardless of whether we're actually autistic) makes a lot of sense as a pattern of communication learned through communicating primarily in writing.
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Feels kinda parallel to the "Hard to distinguish which bits are neurodivergence and which bits are the trauma of being neurodivergent in neurotypical society" in some ways: If being different causes you to learn more of life from reading, you become yet more different.
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When the guy who lived as a hermit in Maine for 27 years and survived by burglary was caught, he was diagnosed with Aspergers and his fellow inmates said to him, "you talk like a book".
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A bit "the medium is the message"-ish: online discussion about trivia is more sustainable (respond at leisure, written arguments to parse+reparse, new ppl coming in), but hides contextual clues about possibly low importance of the debate / issue at hand.
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It's kind of like the near total lack of physical constraints in software engineering leading to huge stacks of intricate parts combined with no holistic clarity. Fewer global constraints can lead to wild growth. This can be very positive ofc, I'm focusing on the downside here.
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you can tell someone is a particular kind of nerd if their conversational responses sound like reddit posts
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