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    Something that makes you feel stupid...

    What is something that you do (or don't do because you are afraid of looking dumb) or think that gives you the "OMG, I'm such an idiot" feel?


    For example...I never know when to use affect vs effect. Seriously.


    Also, I always, always, always spell character wrong. Thank the gods for spell check.
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    Twenty times a day I light up a smoke. Every time I do, I feel like an idiot - because every time I do, I am an idiot.
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      I used to also do that B.De.,and know just how hard it is to stop(I still get the cravings after over a year stopped) I also know WHY I smoked,and most likely why you still do..

      I feel like an idiot when I talk to younger people,because I am old,and at times have no idea what they are talking about...
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        I can't type the word 'because' without having to go back and correct it. Ever. I always, without fail, type 'becasue'. For some reason, my mental wiring has a defect in that spot.
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          Basic math. I have dyscalculia (like dyslexia, but with numbers), so basic stuff that a ten-year-old can do eludes me.
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            The genitive s... I'm never quite sure if I put the ' in the right place.
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              #7
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              I think for me it's got to be using There, Their and They're. I almost always reverse the e & i in their on the first typing. It's probably not unusual but Alter and Altar used to get me as I meant Altar as in a religious usage but would write alter.

              A pet peeve though has to be plane and plain. I see so many talk about alternate plains of reality or dimensions but always it seems they write plane.
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                Basic subtraction sometimes gives me issues. I'm usually pretty good with letters, but the word "receipt" always messes me up, I have to be super careful when writing it.
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                  I will say entree as ennnntreeeeee. I'd like the chicken eeeeentreeee.
                  And we have an auto section at work. It's automotive. Not my automAYtive.

                  And on a more serious darker note? My lack of clarity in my eyesight. I have the blurry coke bottle vision due to Diabetes. So little details get missed. Quite a few times I will be asking for something right in front of me. Or told to go get a small tool and I'm staring at the wall not know where it's at. Even though I know it's right there in front of me.
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                    Re: Something that makes you feel stupid...

                    Originally posted by Hawkfeathers View Post
                    I always, without fail, type 'becasue'. For some reason, my mental wiring has a defect in that spot.
                    Nope, it's not just you. The a and s are right next to each other.
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                      Re: Something that makes you feel stupid...

                      Originally posted by monsno_leedra View Post
                      A pet peeve though has to be plane and plain. I see so many talk about alternate plains of reality or dimensions but always it seems they write plane.
                      This one can go either way depending on if you equate it with geography (a place)--plain, or with a geometry (a dimension)--plane.

                      Personally, I'm in the geometry crowd. The geography definition to me would be like saying its an alternate prairie.





                      Prairie being another word I need spellcheck for. Along with Medieval. And Caribbean. And Renaissance.


                      And that was an intentional breaking of grammar rules, made for effect (or affect) and not because I don't understand sentence structure.

                      Even though I apparently also need spellcheck for sentence.
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                        Originally posted by thalassa View Post
                        This one can go either way depending on if you equate it with geography (a place)--plain, or with a geometry (a dimension)--plane.

                        Personally, I'm in the geometry crowd. The geography definition to me would be like saying its an alternate prairie.
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                        Hm but doesn't that first infer your referring to a two dimensional drawing on a flat piece of paper? If someone is talking about a 3 dimensional location they can visit, ie upper world or lower world, celestial or chthonic worlds then it's not a flat piece of paper but a place. Normally it seems when I see the usage of "Plane" it's in reference to a location whether it be celestial, chthonic, upper world, lower world, etheral or astral or other such places.
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                          Originally posted by monsno_leedra View Post
                          Hm but doesn't that first infer your referring to a two dimensional drawing on a flat piece of paper? If someone is talking about a 3 dimensional location they can visit, ie upper world or lower world, celestial or chthonic worlds then it's not a flat piece of paper but a place. Normally it seems when I see the usage of "Plane" it's in reference to a location whether it be celestial, chthonic, upper world, lower world, etheral or astral or other such places.
                          Plain implies prairie which is only slightly closer. That and Dungeons and Dragons went with Plane when they did Planescape so while the spelling may have been off at some point, a rather large segment of the population will be familiar with the RPG spelling and default to it in a similar way to how so many fictional interpretations of elves have a number of similarities to Tolkien's.
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                            #14
                            Re: Something that makes you feel stupid...

                            Originally posted by MaskedOne View Post
                            Plain implies prairie which is only slightly closer. That and Dungeons and Dragons went with Plane when they did Planescape so while the spelling may have been off at some point, a rather large segment of the population will be familiar with the RPG spelling and default to it in a similar way to how so many fictional interpretations of elves have a number of similarities to Tolkien's.
                            But by that logic then we should be spelling love as LUV because that was popular and pushed for a bit. We (collectively) justify dumbing down things, and the acceptance of them, because it was written in another way or people have become lazy. Use them correctly and your suddenly the dumb person in their eyes or the nerd which is sort of sad if you think about it.
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                              #15
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                              MATH. I can't do it. It's why I didn't make it through college. I feel smart about everything else. I was reading at college level by the Sixth grade, I have straight A's in everything....and then there is Math which is sure makes me look like an intellectual invalid.

                              When I went to college the only thing I wanted to major in was Geology. It is the only thing I could see myself doing. But, the math destroyed me. And it was just the remedial math. It never clicked no matter how hard I tried. The thing is I can do math quickly in my head. When I working as a casino dealer I could calculate complicated payouts, odds, bets in a second. So, I don't get it. It makes feel more than stupid. I absolutely fear math. If it's algebra or above I'm the stupidest person on Earth.

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