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December 2010 Moms
Serendipity117
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I feel like a dumb dumb
Serendipity117
member
Ugh, I just feel like I am less intelligent nowadays than I ever used to be. And not only with things like keeping up with politics and whatnot but things like spelling and grammar.
I am constantly having to edit my posts here and on fb because I am missing words, punctuation, spelling words wrong or using the wrong forms of words. In the last couple days I sent a text asking "When are you do?" and "I'll see you their". WTF!? Those are mistakes that I am embarrassed to be making especially since I cringe when I see others do it.
What is going on? Tell me I am not the only one.
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Re: I feel like a dumb dumb
heh heh love it.
I think everyone makes typos while writing. The difference is whether you take time to edit or not.
For work, yes, of course, I edit the heck out of stuff (even things like emails). But the Bump is for fun, and usually, I am writing something hastily between doing other things, so, no, I don't feel like it's a good use of my time to do a lot of editing so every post is perfect.
I tend to assume most people feel similarly, so I try not to assume people's education or fluency based on their posts on TB.
Well, I just sent a work email to not 1 wrong person by accident, but 2. One of those wrong people were who the email was about.
The mistake happened b/c of the address autocomplete feature - one person has the same last name as the other's first name & the other 2 people have the same first name.
Thank the friggen lord it was a nicely, professionally composed email & not one of my random complaining/venting emails. So, add me to the dumb dumb list.
Agh! I didn't even catch that. It's worse than I thought! lol
This is me too and I didn't even catch the typo, not even when Jilly bolded it!
I think it's baby related. I feel that way right now because I'm not sleeping well. I'm sure with a new baby, you aren't sleeping at all! They just kind of sap all the smart right out of you! I also teach elementary school and I swear every year I get a little dumber. When you are only doing basic math and reading on a fourth grade level at the highest all day (and are too tired when you get home to read things you like!), you tend to start feeling like you are a fourth grader. This year I'm back in first, so there goes another drop in my intelligence.