Your not as smart as u think u are

I am an electrician. I know, algerbra, trigonometry, Geometry and some calculas.
I never been a member of a forum and I just joined this one just 4 days ago and I am realizining I am not as smart as I thought I was and here is why.
Many of you use words I have to look up in Websters Dictionary because I don't know the meaning of them.

Bro's and Sis's. I can go anywhere in the world, No check that. I can go anywhere in the Galaxy and get a job because I am an electrician and have over 2,000 hr's electrical engineering schooling and I can get a job. However, my spelling is HORRIABLE, I don't know the deffinitions of these fancy words you use.

The point being, I'm happy with knowing my Trade will always keep me employed but I do wish I was smarter with the English language.
Not as smart as I think I am Huh ? Lol..lol...lol..lol.

 

Have you considered spellcheck?

 

Yes I have. Just today I've started running Webster Dictionary in a Second window when I need a definition. Think I"ll go to best buy tomarro and buy a Dictionary/Theasuse piece of software to load and have it launch on desktop boot up.

 

A syntax checker would be good too. Look @ whatever word processing package you use, the spellchecker & the syntax checker might already be there.

 

I want a full blown dictionary/Theasuarus piece of software program I can browes and look at. I'll go to Best Buy T'marro and see if they have one.

 

Sounds like comprehension is more the issue. All of the "-ocracies", "-isms", "-ologies" must be confusing to anyone who hasn't taken poli-sci. I myself asked a PF poster if he'd installed a Thesaurus algorithm on his PC because he used the most obscure words, and terminology to describe the most simplistic concepts. Natty, you know who you are ...

 

Ha! A little humility never hurt anyone.

There are a few exceptionally good writers on this forum.

Cheers!

 

I've noticed some posters use such complicated words to describe such simple terms. I think some are just showing off their handle of the English language. Why couldn't you just say; Your a jerk, in stead of; uncommunicative.

 

Hey Peeps, Thank You for posting back at me. I am happy, I am Proud and I am doing well but after joining this website forum I do feel a little stupid with not knowing the definitions of words used here. Thanks again. Oh, but by the way, I can type over 60 words a minute. Does it count if they're spelled wrong ? LMAO.....

 

If I am not as smart as I think, then I must be very stupid.

 

I would say that all I know when measured against all there is to know renders what I know to be next to nothing at all. Ego wants me to believe that I am greater than I am, wisdom reminds me of just how small I really am.

That is how I learned.

I have a 4 year degree and am a horrible speller, mitigated by my reliance upon spellcheck. Over the last few years I have been useing the dictionary on a regular basis. Where things get interesting is when I look up a word on multiple dictionaries and find multiple interpretations as to the definition of a word.

 

Because I'd get a rule 2 infraction; and if I made a habit of it, I'd get banned.

 

In all honesty, when I stumbled onto this website I was drunk and ready to throw some SH#T in some Liberal faces and vent my frustrations. But after reading through all the topics it actually calmed me down and I have found this place enjoyable and not a place to call people names, but to just simple; DEBATE, and talk about ""OUR"" issues.

 

I use to think that too, but no longer. I have been doing online debate for nearly 20 years and one of the many things I have learned is that concision is important. The more words I use to make an argument, the more opportunity there is for one of those words to become the focal point of the debate as opposed to the argued premise.

Because a civil and productive debate cannot exist in the presence of ad hominem attacks.

 

YOU JERK ! Lol..lol..

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• Writing? Check your grammar now!
  
  

Definition of ad hominem

1. 1 : appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect an ad hominem argument
   
   
2. 2 : marked by or being an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions made made an ad hominem personal attack on his rival
   

 

So what your saying is because I don't speak proper and eliquint English I can't have a civil debat ?

 

Yeah, calling someone a jerk is attacking his/her character.

 

Reading is the best way I know to improve your vocabulary and spelling. Obviously not pornography, but good, well-written literature. Typically, someone who has made the NY Times best-seller list will be using "big" words, spelled correctly.

 

As an electrician I had to travel a lot to accumulate what I've accomplished. I finally landed a local job full time so I can stay at home now. Yesterday I order off of Amazon.com a book called; The Complete Tales and Poem of Edgar Allen Poe and Alfred Hitchcock; Tales of Terror.

Bro's and Sis's. all's I see in my career daily life is Mathmatics and physics. Now I am home bound with a permenant job. I am going to start reading books again.

 

Well, the formula we used to calculate WPM back when I was in high school - yah, the Stone Age - typographical errors counted against your WPM. Under that regime, I got to 90 WPM - on a manual - so I was pretty fast. (Then I ran into people who typed 120+ WPM, again on a manual. I was impressed.) I haven't done production typing (all day @ work, basically) in ages, but between the PC & Spellcheck, I can still compose pretty fast. & yah, I tend to proofread before I hit Enter to send my note out.

On the vocabulary - if you stay with the conversations, you'll pick up the words & meanings. It's not rocket science, really. If you're willing to look up the items that puzzle you, you'll get the hang of it in time.

 

I have advanced degrees and all the people I work with do. It is no reflection on intelligence. The best way I heard it put is by a doctor who said his intelligence was narrow but deep. In some cases very narrow. Remember what Einstein said

Never let schooling interfere with your education

 

Poe is an excellent start - he builds up his stories & poetry from word choice to grammar. I don't know Hitchcock's writing, I know him as a movie director. If you like Poe, you might like Ambrose Bierce & Mark Twain - Bierce wrote a lot of short stories & columns - he's easier to read in short bites. The three of them were roughly contemporaries - around the Civil War, although Poe may have started earlier.

 

I learned the word "decerebrate" on this forum.

 

I was impressed with your post. Especially when you wrote:

“...and I am realigning I am not as smart as I thought...”

It takes a “smart” (actually, wise) person to admit they don’t know something. Then they can take the next step, and learn whatever it is they need to know.

There is so much knowledge available, and so little time to study, that ALL of us are ignorant about loads of things. No one knows much, really, when you look at the big picture. But you are wise to reach out and learn the things you want and need to know.

You’re right about the forum, there are a lot of good people here. And there’s a lot to learn. There are some really smart people; there are some who only think they’re really smart; and there are a lot of average Joes trying to learn something along the way. I think most of us are in the third category.

So, welcome to the forum. Sounds like you’re already enjoying it.
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I searched out a couple of dictionaries you may want to look at. They can be found locally as well.

Here are a couple of links to some great dictionaries found on Amazon: the Oxford American English Dictionary.

The first link is to a paperback. Costs 12.30.

www.amazon.com/Paperback-Oxford-English-Dictionary-Dictionaries/dp/0199640947/ref=pd_sim_14_5?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0199640947&pd_rd_r=ZAXZ1VMM41Q67TWS2ZM7&pd_rd_w=TquPh&pd_rd_wg=kPfF1&psc=1&refRID=ZAXZ1VMM41Q67TWS2ZM7

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Next link is the hardcover version. Cost 31.02

www.amazon.com/New-Oxford-American-Dictionary-3rd/dp/0195392884/ref=pd_sim_14_5?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0195392884&pd_rd_r=MA41ZFQV3RBHANB3EC9Q&pd_rd_w=eQm7R&pd_rd_wg=Ic79C&psc=1&refRID=MA41ZFQV3RBHANB3EC9Q
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I have both and love them, but the paperback is more convenient and gets the most use.

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I haven’t tried the software version, so I can’t say how good, or bad, it is.

Here’s the same dictionary in software for Windows computers:

www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/oxford-american-dictionary-thesaurus/9nblggh0xfb9

You have to check the system requirements.

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I want to learn more about the Revolutionary war. I can't really remember why it happened, but wasn't it something about; Taxation without causation ? It was about separating us from Socialism wasn't it?