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Nerdiness might not be just a matter of pocket protectors and bad clothes. Mary Bucholtz, a professor of linguistics, suggests that race and language are a key way of dividing the "nerds" from the "cool." Bucholtz talks about how white nerds and cool kids relate to black English.
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