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15 Apr 2008, 9:57 am

Me too I got called dictionary.

Unfortunately this was then used as a cover story to humiliate me by asking for definitions of words like "virgin", and what " oral sex" meant. You can imagine how a literally minded 13 year old aspie girl answered the last one. I replied that perhaps it meant talking about it. :oops: :? :wink: :roll:

Anyway, yes to dictionary, and to correcting people's spelling, and sometimes their grammar, when I quote them in posts too, and having a tendency to immensely long sentences with many sub clauses.

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15 Apr 2008, 11:09 pm

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I remember one lesson some cruel kids in my class wrote some nasty phrases about our teacher on the board. I was in the process of standing there correcting their grammar and spelling in it with a different coloured pen when the teacher walked in... when he read it and then realised what I was doing he laughed for about five minutes, and we collectively avoided a detention. What a moment of glory. ;)


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15 Apr 2008, 11:10 pm

I've been called a walking encyclopedia.


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16 Apr 2008, 7:03 am

Odin wrote:
LeKiwi wrote:
I remember one lesson some cruel kids in my class wrote some nasty phrases about our teacher on the board. I was in the process of standing there correcting their grammar and spelling in it with a different coloured pen when the teacher walked in... when he read it and then realised what I was doing he laughed for about five minutes, and we collectively avoided a detention. What a moment of glory. ;)


:lol: :lol: :lol:


I remember that when I was in primary school I was asked once by other students how one vulgar word should be spelled - we have such a word "chuj" that means a vulgar name for a private part of male anatomy but it's usually spelled in an incorrect way - "huj" :lol: Having a "walking dictionary" in their class, both the fractions - supporters of "chuj" and those who liked "huj" better perceived this a good occasion to at last find out about the proper spelling from a specialist :lol: :lol: :lol:



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16 Apr 2008, 7:23 am

Yeah, I occasionally have to repress an urge to correct people if they misspell things.


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16 Apr 2008, 11:39 am

I am ashamed of this--I once graded a love letter from a girlfriend in college and sent it back to her with an F.

She was not amused.



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16 Apr 2008, 1:37 pm

Yeah, human dictionary, walking encyclopedia, I've been called those and not in a complimentary way. People actually resent the fact that I know so much about so many things, especially in my redneck of the woods. I've had to dumb it down quite a bit. This I don't understand. Part of it is that I am naturally smart and interested in a lot of things, but I was also raised that way by parents who were teachers. Aha, we all know how much respect teachers get! My dad told me once he didn't raise me to be shallow, and I turned to him and said, "Maybe it would have been kinder if you had."

I don't know if this is a NT thing in general or just a certain culture of NT's, but education is definitely not respected; and if you are a woman with brains you'd better hide that fact. Look at the toys designed for girls. After decades of feminism not much has changed, if anything it has gotten worse. Even now, boys have the more interesting toys (although mindless violence is takng over fast).

Being a human encyclopedia has in one sense enriched my life, but in another, just increased my social isolation. At least on WP I can find people to talk with who appreciate intelligent if sometimes offbeat conversation. :?



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16 Apr 2008, 2:32 pm

I used to be, but not anymore.


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16 Apr 2008, 9:14 pm

I'm not much of a "human dictionary", but more like a "human spell checker" because of my off the chart spelling skills.


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16 Apr 2008, 9:37 pm

Can't say I've got that one. I might be a bit above-average in spelling, but I still get plenty of use out of my Word spell-checker.



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16 Apr 2008, 10:26 pm

I always correct people when they use incorrect grammar. It even bothers me to see bad grammar on the Internet. I even correct my French teacher occasionally.. she's French, and I'm not. Also, all the kids in my class ask me for help in that class, not the teacher, because, though I never study for that class, (or any others, for that matter. I should actually be reading 1984 right now...) but I always ace the tests and understand French very well. Though, that may have something to do with my previous knowledge of Spanish from a Spanish Immersion program starting in 1st grade. Though, there are two Peruvians kids in my class who don't seem to grasp the language as easily. I also do really well in science, well, at least biology.

Oh, haha, and in 7th grade, my teacher used to give out coupons for extra credit for things like finding grammatical errors or having exceptional answers during discussions, and I found so many errors in the book, The Outsiders, and probably some of her things, too, that one day she just seemed really upset at me and told me something with the same meaning of, "Stop it, you are annoying." I then realized that maybe I shouldn't correct people so much... I still do so, but I try to supress it.

Sorry to anyone who might actually be reading this for droning on, but the strange thing is that I basically cannot write to save my life. Creative writing is almost impossible, and extracting meaning from anything, even summarizing, sometimes, is extremely difficult.

I really should study and work, even though I have all A's while pretty much giving no effort, except during school, because I can't make myself work until the last minute. It's really dumb, I know that, but I compulsively procrastinate and get distracted really easily.

Oh, I noticed that quite a few people on here have either George Orwell quotes or excerpts from 1984. I'm going to go try to read 1984 now. Also, sorry for my ADD-like writing...



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01 May 2008, 5:25 am

I'm kind of in the "human dictionary" category too. I've been known to correct spelling and vocabulary of English teachers everywhere :) and of course always getting 100% on the vocab/spelling/grammar parts of english class, which was a godsend when I was failing the rest (i.e., the writing part)

Just the other day, I corrected a phd in english on a matter of vocabulary (she was very gracious about it, and besides, she had tried to correct me first, so I had to correct her correction :) )

I don't feel any particular compulsion to correct people, though. I sometimes see some things that I think people really should know better on (ensure/insure, effect/affect, etc) but I never say anything unless they're asking me to critique it.



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01 May 2008, 1:04 pm

telrad wrote:
--I once graded a love letter from a girlfriend and sent it back to her with an F.

She was not amused.
lol. Me too.

I appologise for the pain I have caused, and will cause many of you, as my spelling SUCKS!! !! This is somewhat odd, because I LOVE, and actually collect dictionarys. I can, and have spent days just reading one, and never get far from one. I have a vast vocabulary, but still can't spell. :( I suspect that this might be due to the fact that I am mildly lisdexic. :lol: I was born left handed, but had it beaten out of me, (not that uncommon in years past), and am now right handed, (poorly).

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02 May 2008, 1:46 pm

Yes - though I'm not as bad as I used to be about it, & I've noticed that some of my posts have typos (N.B. they are typos & not spelling mistakes!! !!) - if I find them in time I do go back & correct them though.

At work I am a perfectionist & when my boss sends something round asking for comments I will always correct all the typos/spelling/grammar mistakes - assuming someone else has not got in first (there are two other people in my team who are "system-oriented" as well, & one may actually be an aspie!)

I remember (when I was a kid) proofreading a presentation my dad had to give at work & I found loads of mistakes in it & he was really grateful - I was like "I couldn't let you stand up there in front of all those people with slides like that!"



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02 May 2008, 5:28 pm

I sometimes give people the word they are looking for when teaching-happened several times.


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02 May 2008, 5:33 pm

Yes, especially at college.

I did a course in animal management and when a teacher asked for a definition of something, I gave it in a very concise, dictionary-like style.

I also got called the 'brain of all knowledge'.

I get really annoyed with obvious spelling and grammar errors like 'stationary' for pens and pencils and apostrophes for plurals when people really ought to know better. I even saw sign in a shop recently saying 'stationary upstairs'. Do they sell stillness? I wondered.


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