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    #31
    Re: Something that makes you feel stupid...

    Originally posted by Medusa View Post
    Sometimes some of the posts Thal makes when she's all sciencee and stuff. I'm like hold up, wait a minute, let me get my dictionary in it.

    I am with Duce on this..Thal is a science talker,and I am a half-asking science sorta know it almost.
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      #32
      Re: Something that makes you feel stupid...

      In psychology, when someone doesn't show emotion, they are said to have a "flat affect", and is pronounced with emphasis on the first syllable (AFF-ect").
      In a sentence: I'm affected by the effect a plain plane has on people, but it doesn't show in my affect.
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        #33
        Re: Something that makes you feel stupid...

        Originally posted by Hawkfeathers View Post
        In psychology, when someone doesn't show emotion, they are said to have a "flat affect", and is pronounced with emphasis on the first syllable (AFF-ect").
        In a sentence: I'm affected by the effect a plain plane has on people, but it doesn't show in my affect.
        Aaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!

        Hawkfeathers, you trying to drive us nuts or what?
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          #34
          Re: Something that makes you feel stupid...

          Originally posted by B. de Corbin View Post
          Aaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!

          Hawkfeathers, you trying to drive us nuts or what?
          Finally, a use for my English & Psych. degrees!!!
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            #35
            Re: Something that makes you feel stupid...

            Right on Hawk...dazzle them with horse hocky
            MAGIC is MAGIC,black OR white or even blood RED

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            NO TERF EVER WE belong Too.
            don't stop the tears.let them flood your soul.




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              #36
              Re: Something that makes you feel stupid...

              Originally posted by Hawkfeathers View Post
              In psychology, when someone doesn't show emotion, they are said to have a "flat affect", and is pronounced with emphasis on the first syllable (AFF-ect").
              In a sentence: I'm affected by the effect a plain plane has on people, but it doesn't show in my affect.
              I was aware of this exception but, as I don't understand it, I couldn't justify using it lol
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                #37
                Re: Something that makes you feel stupid...

                Originally posted by B. de Corbin View Post

                I don't even spend time on affect/effect in high school. I'm still trying to get them to start sentences with a capital letter, and to end words with "s" or "'s" as necessary.

                THAT is stupid.
                So...what you are telling me is that I shouldn't sweat the fact that my 1st grader is still working on this? But maybe in the next few years I should be concerned?



                (in reality, for him, just getting him to write halfway legibly is a challenge)
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                  #38
                  Re: Something that makes you feel stupid...

                  Originally posted by thalassa View Post
                  So...what you are telling me is that I shouldn't sweat the fact that my 1st grader is still working on this? But maybe in the next few years I should be concerned?



                  (in reality, for him, just getting him to write halfway legibly is a challenge)
                  No... maybe what I'm saying (I don't even know) is: Go ahead and sweat it. He will be so much better off than, say, 80% of his contemporaries if he knows that this kind of stuff actually matters. As far s handwriting goes, concentrate on teaching him typing skills. Writing is a dead art. By the time he gets to high school, everything will be done in Google (or some other such Googley thingy).
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                    #39
                    Re: Something that makes you feel stupid...

                    English language in general makes me feel stupid. (I have sort of a love-hate relationship to it.)
                    Especially whenever I try to contract "who are" as "who're". Is that even okay?
                    I also can't conjugate Finnish words when I write. Which does make me feel stupid because I do it almost exclusively in such situations where it can't even be considered a typo.

                    ...I won't even get started with the list of all the things that make me feel stupid. They are plenty.
                    baah.

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                      #40
                      Re: Something that makes you feel stupid...

                      Grammar, and spelling. Two things I have always been horrible at and it pisses me off and makes it worse when people correct me. Most of the time I realize when I have made the mistake I just don't always know how to fix it.

                      Also mistakes in general make me feel stupid. I don't like doing things I have never done or starting new jobs because they are unfamiliar to me because I don't want to make a mistake or look foolish.
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                        #41
                        Re: Something that makes you feel stupid...

                        Polyglots make me feel stupid. They're my kryptonite.
                        夕方に急なにわか雨は「夕立」と呼ばれるなら、なぜ朝ににわか雨は「朝立ち」と呼ばれないの? ^^If a sudden rain shower in the evening is referred to as an 'evening stand', then why isn't a shower in the morning called 'morning stand'?

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                          #42
                          Re: Something that makes you feel stupid...

                          Originally posted by Jembru View Post
                          Polyglots make me feel stupid. They're my kryptonite.
                          I fully agree.
                          baah.

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                            #43
                            Re: Something that makes you feel stupid...

                            Having an inferiority complex, I feel stupid often. However, I've learned to combat it healthfully with positive self-talk and the realization that other people are often just as awkward as I am, and nobody really cares.

                            Math makes me feel like an idiot when I have trouble grasping it. I'm only in pre-algebra and have had trouble with quite a few sections and spend a lot of time in my professor's office being tutored. Right now I'm having a time grasping interpolation and extrapolation.

                            Sometimes I slur my speech or say awkward things. For instance, someone says "Good luck" to me in regards to something they themselves aren't participating in, but I'll say, "You too." Crap like that makes me feel awkward for a good couple of hours.
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                              #44
                              Re: Something that makes you feel stupid...

                              Clive,my brother from another mother...good to see you typing.
                              MAGIC is MAGIC,black OR white or even blood RED

                              all i ever wanted was a normal life and love.
                              NO TERF EVER WE belong Too.
                              don't stop the tears.let them flood your soul.




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                              my new page here,let me know what you think.


                              nothing but the shadow of what was

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