Mostly I'm advising to avoid metaphor, irony, subtext or figurative language, identify jokes as jokes explicitly & assume they mean well.
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erm... How does one do that in a writing group?
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It seems you write stories about the disastrous & hilarious consequences of getting an equation slightly wrong.
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Do you make a distinction between ‘geeks’ and ‘nerds’? I’d say the former are the latter with social skills
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I understand the former as hobbyists and the latter as having a stronger intellectual/academic flavour.
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Interesting interpretation. I wouldn’t have linked either with academia but now I think about it….
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The nerds I know are scientists, medievalists, linguists or mathematicians.They get very literal & pedantic but they're lovely
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Did you say something like "Take me for instance..."
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I aspire to nerdhood!
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