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Post by ouchy2 on Feb 15, 2011 23:52:57 GMT -5
What are some ideas or thoughts you used to have that seem stuck up or silly to you nowadays?
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Post by ouchy2 on Feb 15, 2011 23:56:48 GMT -5
I used to consider those who misused commas in writing to be illiterate! Now that I've been a house hag for a while (and my skills have started to wane), I am becoming illiterate by my old standards! LOL
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Post by hellsbells on Feb 16, 2011 8:14:57 GMT -5
Well, I've studied several foreign languages, and through that I've learned a huge amount about by own language. Good grammar and punctuation is important to me personally because of my background in linguistics, but I've come to realise that not everyone has the same viewpoint; to some people the communication is more important than how they write it, so I don't make a big deal of it.
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Post by KSA on Feb 16, 2011 9:07:22 GMT -5
Oh I am the worst at punctuation my boss is a english proffessor and I am so happy she looks at my work emails before I send them out. LOL other wise instead of the lipstick librarian I would be the bad grammer librarian. I also have issues with my memory and all I learned in college, high school, and primary I have forgotten so I get a bit of slack for that I suppose. I feel bad tho and hope that most of the time all of you get what I mean. I mix my words up ALOT and after a seizure well forget it I better stay off the computer cause I wont know the difference between english and french. I think communicating in general as long as we understand each other is my view. Helen you are awesome for correcting all my mistakes love ya!
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Post by ouchy2 on Feb 16, 2011 10:13:48 GMT -5
Yeah. I have brain damage, and now my spelling sucks!
This doesn't have to be about grammar. Just in general, silly thoughts we had growing up!
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Post by ouchy2 on Feb 16, 2011 10:19:38 GMT -5
And I don't feel like this now! It's about ideas we USED to have.
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Post by hellsbells on Feb 16, 2011 10:21:03 GMT -5
Haha Keri I've given up, you have your own charm about you :-)
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Post by ouchy2 on Feb 16, 2011 10:33:18 GMT -5
I had a stupid I guess rather "ideal" view of what I was *supposed* to look like in high school (as opposed to what I did), so I got colored contacts, colored my hair, and went to get my nose and chin re-done. I felt so good about it at the time, but looking back, it was SO shallow and superficial! I dont' know what the hell I was doing!
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Post by ouchy2 on Feb 16, 2011 10:34:17 GMT -5
Keri, I took my second year of French at the same time I took my third year of Spanish, and it turned out to be a total glob of bullsh*t coming out a test one time! It was neither French nor Spanish...but "Franish!" LOL. Yeah. I bombed that test!
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Post by ouchy2 on Feb 16, 2011 10:34:51 GMT -5
"Bullnuts!" HAHAHAH! I forgot about the corrector. DAH!
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Post by omaklackey on Feb 16, 2011 15:19:52 GMT -5
I used to have so many stuck up notions about raising kids, turns out nothing works like you think it will! LOL Its mostly because every kid is an individual and needs a different plan. I always laugh when I hear a young parent or about to be parent talk because I know they are in for a rough ride, the more opinionated about their ideas for parenting the worse time they have assimilating. My hubby and I both enjoy a chuckle at their expense and inevitably the frazzled parent looks to someone with older kids in some attempt to get their feet back under them. That's when you give them a big hug and say we understand and try to encourage them as best you can, because we don't have any better answers for them... we are still figuring it out for ourselves.
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Post by ouchy2 on Feb 16, 2011 16:20:36 GMT -5
Oh yeah. The parenting thing! Lol. That's another of mine!
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Post by gemstone on Feb 16, 2011 16:58:51 GMT -5
This is more about me than my feelings about others, but I always thought that I should grow up, go to Uni, get a first, get a high flying job and not have children as they would tie me down and I wanted to have loads of money to spend on me.
Several years later - I have still not grown up, I went to Uni but really think it was pretty much a waste of time and got a 2:1, have a (aside from the bullsh1t at my work) pretty regular job and really would like some children!
I am definitely happier now than I've ever been and cringe about how pretentious I obviously used to sound!!!
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Post by JC on Feb 17, 2011 7:11:17 GMT -5
I'm not really a big fan of dwelling on past mentalities that I'm currently embarrassed about. I think this is what growing as a person is all about; learning through experience. None of us would ever move past old stuck-up ideas if it wasn't for life experience. Personally, I'd rather not go back to the crap I used to think.
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Post by cherry on Feb 17, 2011 8:49:17 GMT -5
As a person I am the same as you Jenaya. Further to that, I have given myself huge problems in flogging myself with past mistakes and misconceptions, just lately and through support from some very amazing friends, I've learned to look over my mistakes and simply celebrate how far I've come. I have terrible tendencies to dwell and overthink so you ladies know who you are when I say that. You've saved me from myself many a time when I've stuck myself in a rut about how I've hurt myself and others. I wouldn't say I've ever been stuck up either, I grew up being humiliated by a lot of people so I just now have this perception of being grateful for what I am and what I have, and not holding myself to ridiculously high standards because I'm only setting myself up for a hard fall if I fail. So I think my mindset has been (for some time, in some form or another) celebrate your successes and give people a hand up along the way.
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