Indeed I found the premise about romantic languages quite ridiculous as I could readily think of a few pejoratives in French from the top of my head, and prett

Indeed I found the premise about romantic languages quite ridiculous as I could readily think of a few pejoratives in French from the top of my head, and pretty sure I forget or miss some of them, so when TFA reaches to French I was flabbergasted. "Intello", "être une tête" (can be used both positively and negatively), "grosse tête", "quatre-yeux" (typical image of nerds with thick glasses), "tête d'ampoule" (probably the closest to nerd together with "intello"), "avoir une tête de premier de la classe", "binoclard", "coincé", "pingouin", "rat de bibliothèque", "taupe"...