What is a freak and what is a geek?

Well, a freak is someone or something that is very strange or unusual. In the old days, it had a negative meaning. For example, in the 19th century, you would go to a freak show to see all the strange and shocking forms of humanity. The Elephant Man, for example, was considered a freak.

Well, nowadays the meaning has changed somewhat, and it just means someone or something that is very different from the norm. And it could be good, or it could be bad. So, Michael Jordan was a freak athlete. Cristiano Ronaldo had a freak accident and couldn't play football for a month. You get the idea.

 

So freak is very different from a geek. And what's a geek? Well, once again, the meaning of this word has changed over the years. Originally, it was someone who was intelligent, but not at all fashionables and probably not very popular either.

Like when I was a kid at school, you really wouldn't want to be called a geek. But things have changed over the last 30 years. The geeks are now running the world. The geeks are the ones that we look up to. We respect. We aspire to be. Steve Jobs. Bill Gates. Elon Musk. They are all geeks and they are building spaceships to travel to Mars. How cool is that? So nowadays it's a source of pride to call yourself a geek. And it has come to mean anyone who is passionate about any field of expertise.

I can describe myself like a Geek and Freak, but more like a kind of Geek of the computers, specificaly the source code, I really love it, I love the source code and create new thing through my knowledge of a computer language.