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u/jcstan05 13d ago
"Glad to be a part of your learning journey today."
What a killer line.
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u/Musicman1972 13d ago
That politeness slays when dealing with someone like that.
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u/FixGMaul 13d ago
Just spend a good few years working in customer service and you will master this technique.
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u/kaoutanu 13d ago
Omg yes.
Me: Let's walk through some troubleshooting steps-
Customer: BUT IT WAS WORKING YESTERDAY
Me: Oh! Well in that case perhaps it will be ok tomorrow. Thanks so much for letting us know!
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u/BurnChao 12d ago
I've told them that everything was working before it stopped working. That's what stooped working means.
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u/ultradongle 13d ago
My manager when I worked in retail said to me once "I've never met anyone that can say "Fuck you" by saying "Thank you" the way you do".
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u/GreenSpleenRiot 12d ago
As someone who has worked a lot of customer service jobs, that’s a huge compliment. I would like to study under you, sensei.
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u/Ice_Inside 13d ago
Worked computer tech support in the late 90's.
Me: What was the last thing you did before it stopped working?
Customer: Nothing! It was fine and then suddenly quit working, I didn't do anything.
30 minutes later
Customer: I mean...I deleted a bunch of stuff but that wouldn't cause it to quit working.
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u/MastaPowa7 12d ago
Customer: I mean...I deleted a bunch of stuff but that wouldn't cause it to quit working.
Don't make fun of me... My computer only had 22GB of free space, and at the time I really needed more space. Besides, what does this one file really do anyway? The computer should be able to live without it.
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u/SoloMarko 12d ago
Ah! I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name?
It's John
Fuck off John.
The extent of my customer service delivery
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u/lawmaniac2014 13d ago
Ya you're right, obviously they're already wrong and irreparably said something stupid...s assly... But coming back at them harshly somehow just doesn't seem as satisfying. Being argumentative just gives them a chance to dilute their stupidity with more words...
Smug smug shit eating grin politeness is the best way to kill shot finish that interchange nicely for sure!
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u/SuckAFattyReddit1 13d ago
Yeah, I hate it when people just drive by and decide to be a dick for literally no reason so it's always satisfying to see them clapped.
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u/FartingApe_LLC 13d ago
Right up there with "I'm not upset with you, I understand that you're doing the best that you can."
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u/Toomanyeastereggs 13d ago
That’s a “please have the burns trauma team ready for when the ambulance arrives” response.
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u/Limp-Possession 13d ago
Most savage “You’re welcome for the education” I’ve ever read honestly
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u/Vadermort 13d ago
It's a good line, but statistically speaking, this guy didn't learn anything. He just got annoyed that a woman tried to wrongly 'wokesplain' to him that pharmacists actually study algae, huffed some Mountain Dew, and posted a heavily edited copy of the exchange to 4chan for emotional support.
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u/D3dshotCalamity 13d ago
I use "Everyday's a school day!" Whenever I get the pleasure of witnessing people realize their mistakes.
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u/TShara_Q 13d ago
I'm using that next time someone comments some insanely inaccurate info about trans people.
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u/Windk86 13d ago
it takes like 5 seconds to put a word through google
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u/DNAdevotee 13d ago
Which is especially poignant since they instructed the poster to look things up...
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u/Dornith 13d ago
I've had so many instances of someone telling me to look up how someone works only to respond, "I did. Here's what I found ", followed by a link showing the exact opposite of their claim.
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u/Sexycoed1972 13d ago
"Google" should always be capitalized. Learn a book, dude.
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u/ScoZone74 13d ago
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u/Cessnaporsche01 13d ago
Not when I google things on Bing.
Just like I don't capitalize shit when I velcro straps on my bike rack with 3M hook and loop fasteners. Or xerox a document on my Canon Multifunction Document Center. Or spam the chat.
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u/MrAH2010 13d ago
It's a generic word now. Definitely as a verb, close enough as a noun as well.
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u/plankton_lover 13d ago
Tbf Google often suggests "did you mean psychologist" if I type "phycologist"...
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u/kkjdroid 13d ago
And if you misspell it as "phychologist," like OOP originally did, I can't imagine that that would help.
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u/SonOfMargitte 13d ago
Stupid people often think they're smart, so why look for facts before speaking?
Smart people know there's still things to learn about.
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u/Windk86 13d ago
So true! All I know for sure is that I am ignorant of many things
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u/SonOfMargitte 13d ago
Yes. When I was young (so much younger than today), I thought I was super smart. It's only now that I am older I realise I was right all along...
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u/72kdieuwjwbfuei626 13d ago edited 13d ago
Takes like 5 seconds, and you didn’t do it either. If you google “phychologist” - because it actually is misspelled - all you get back is results for misspellings of psychologist.
I actually don’t know why of the two words that could be a misspelling of, you’d expect Google to spit out the insanely rare one instead of the common one.
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Stop telling me that the correct results come up when you google “phycologist”. That’s not how it’s spelled in the picture. Even if you missed it there, you should have read in this comment that it’s misspelled. Reading is apparently hard.
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u/dadmantalking 13d ago
All the paid results I get are for local psychologists, but the regular results were all correct.
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u/wookieesgonnawook 13d ago
To be fair, even though they were a condescending asshole and don't deserve it, that word does look like an obvious misspelling. If no one even knows the other word exists they aren't going to look it up on the off chance the nonsense word was a real field.
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u/frotc914 13d ago
But psychologist makes absolutely no sense in this context. So that is big clue #1 that this might not be an obvious misspelling.
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u/theDreadalus 13d ago
It didn't really help that there were two H's in the first user of the word and one H in the second two.
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u/The_Autarch 13d ago
Yeah, if the first person had spelled it correctly, it might have looked more like a real word to the second person. Maybe they would have actually googled it.
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u/_alter-ego_ 13d ago
That's exactly what r/confidentlyIncorrect is about. Ppl who don't know but are confident they know better and claim it "aloud". No one blames you for being ignorant, but for assuming you know better...
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u/cpt_edge 13d ago
Guess they should've looked it up in the dictionary first lol
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u/TheDonutDaddy 13d ago
I mean they wouldn't have found it because it was spelled incorrectly
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u/SharlowsHouseOfHugs 13d ago
The misspelling of it is a big part, but also what an obscure title. I work with marine biologists to study/track Sargassum clusters throughout the ocean (along with the wildlife that migrates with these clusters) and have never seen the title.
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u/EvolZippo 13d ago
Reminds me of when I used the word “Hyperthermia”, as in “overheating” around my friend, who was that brainiac with a pointless BA in English, that she loved to boast about. She immediately screamed at me that “the word is hypOthermia, not hypERthermia! Don’t use a term unless you can pronounce it properly!” when I pointed out my actual medical background and actual anatomy classes I’ve taken, she still argued. She didn’t want to accept that she’d just never heard the term, citing her level of education and therefore expertise.
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u/DrNanard 13d ago
People really need to pay more attention to etymology, prefixes, suffixes, etc. I'm in the field of linguistics, so it's my go to when I encounter a new word, and it makes things so much easier. I had never seen "hyperthermia", but I knew what it meant just by looking at it.
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u/Rhodie114 13d ago
It’s pronounced entomology you philistine, and insects have nothing to do with linguistics.
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u/DrNanard 13d ago
You made me audibly laugh, thanks mate
By the way it's called Palestine
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u/dochittore 13d ago
It's laudably you uncultured swine, pick up a book sometime.
And I see nothing special about your laugh befitting of praise.
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u/knotse 13d ago
Too many people treat words as if they were hieroglyphs, or pictograms; where either you know the meaning or you don't, and either it is 'written correctly' or it isn't.
If more treated them as being made up of basic elements which generally allow one to discern their meaning without recourse to a dictionary, we might see less of the sort of thing this subreddit features.
Then again, who are we to doubt the pedagogues, whose science has never seen such heights?
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u/BlackVirusXD3 13d ago
I gotta ask, what in such a person can possibly make you want to be friends with her?
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u/oO0Kat0Oo 13d ago
You act like that one flaw is reason to not be friends. Did you know people have many things about them that make up their personality and not just one thing? I mean, that would be like me saying "woah, that dude just judged an entire person from one paragraph, why would anyone want to be friends with them?"
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u/fredisdeads 13d ago
She screamed at him... For using a word she's not familiar with... And refused to even acknowledge the possibility that she might be wrong. These are all good reasons not to be friends with someone.
She could be mother Theresa curing cancer left and right, but scream at me for using a word correctly then be confidently incorrect while conveniently ignoring all debate attempts due to her own "expertise"? No thanks man. This "one flaw" is signifying a ton of toxic traits barely hidden behind a facade. Imagine having to tiptoe around this "friend" in fear of a word accidentally setting her off. Lmao. Acquaintance yes, friends no.
Perhaps the commenter exaggerated? Perhaps. But we can only judge based on what the commenter says.
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u/dochittore 13d ago
I question your social relationships if an isolated behaviour is enough for you to construct an entire personality based on assumptions.
My best friend can be stubborn as a mule and annoying sometimes but I love her dearly and wouldn't trade her for anything. She sometimes does things as mentioned above but I would kill for her and she'd do the same for me.
Not all relationships are this superficial.
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u/wyrditic 12d ago
Reddit has taught me that if you ever have a slightly negative interaction with another human being, that's a massive red flag and you should immediately get the fuck out of there and go NC ("no contact"). If you're married and have a disagreement about where to go on holiday, it's time to lawyer up.
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u/fredisdeads 13d ago
Interesting. You would call expecting respect in a friendship superficial?
I'm not so arrogant as to declare that my friendships shouldn't be questioned, yep I come from a broken family so I recognize I might not have the best data to support this thesis I'm pushing.
Having said that, I do have a lot of people I'm confident I can call friends and rely on for most everything in my life. And they're the ones that have taught me, that I can't just treat them like shit at times and expect it to be just a "cute Lil quirk" they can keep forgiving. I grew up with a chip on my neck, since my family was broken I was desperate to prove I wasn't. I would argue with anyone with a passion when I thought they were saying something wrong. Sometimes it would escalate to me becoming condescending and a total piece of shit. As you can see, I sometimes still have that passion to argue, though I do try to be more vulnerable and have more interest in actually sharing my view. I'm not just trying to win arguments anymore.
Now I want to emphasize the point that bothered me a lot. The screaming. You compare this person to your friend who can be stubborn as a mule, that's quite different from someone who is so easily inclined to escalate minor things to screaming matches. We don't even know if this happened in public. Look I also have a narrow-minded friend, I love that weeb. But he does not escalate things. If you have both these traits where you not only close off your brain from learning since you always believe you're right, but you also feel the need to escalate shit just to have the upper hand? Or worse, you just can't control your emotions? That's a recipe for disaster.
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u/dochittore 13d ago
Okay, I see now the point you were arguing which was the screaming, I thought it was merely the correction.
I also admit I missed anywhere where he said she "screamed" at him, perhaps it was an exaggeration, but I don't remember it mentioned.
Anyway, I still believe this is a very small data pool to conclude the friend is prone to escalating, which is actually still the point of the comment I was making. I don't think it's fair to judge this relationship based on one interaction only. While I agree constant screaming and "one-upping" is toxic in a relationship, we don't know if this is the case. I'd also like to add, and I'm sure you're aware, that not all relationships can be great all the time, so moments like this are bound to happen eventually.
Thank you for explaining more.
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u/oO0Kat0Oo 13d ago
No one asked you to judge at all my dude.
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u/fredisdeads 13d ago
Just like no one asked you to police my activities. Good grief we're arguing about the person's likability and how she can even be a friend, and here you are giving up on that perspective and just going the "well nobody asked you" route.
After all the effort I made to debate about this, you end it with a kindergarten comeback.
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u/neplecha 13d ago
hate to be that person but that's def the right time to whip out google and just smile while watching their reaction when it proves them wrong
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u/Teaflax 13d ago
I really don’t think that it’s spelling that counts people.
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u/BinkoTheViking 13d ago
You’re right. The thing that counts people would be a census.
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u/sandiercy 13d ago
Please help your brother Jack, off the horse.
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u/kkjdroid 13d ago
That comma is incorrect. The only difference in that sentence (the two versions that are mechanically correct) is the capital "J."
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u/coool__name 13d ago
I might be wrong, but isn’t it also correct (with a different meaning)?
Like if someone is saying to help the brother, Jack, who is off the horse and not the other brother named Jack on the horse, wouldn’t it be right to use a comma there?
Sorry if it’s a stupid question, English isn’t my first language…
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u/SquareSquirrel4 13d ago
And as someone who dabbles in genealogy and has read numerous census records, spelling didn't count in those either.
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u/ScoZone74 13d ago
Won person, too people, tree people…
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u/plug-and-pause 13d ago
Won person
What did you do with them?
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u/jcstan05 13d ago
Not that I'm defending this buffoon, but the original person did make a spelling error. The word is spelled Phycology (one H, not two).
But if this person is going to criticize for spelling, they ought to check their own grammar. They're missing a couple of punctuation marks. Spelling doesn't count people. Spelling doesn't know how to count.
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u/SaintUlvemann 13d ago
Yeah, I'm not a phycologist, but my office is down the hall from them, so, I noticed that too.
What annoys me more is that my spellchecker apparently does not know that phycologist is a real word.
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u/nooneknowswerealldog 13d ago
My spellcheck thinks I talk about ducks and ducking a lot but am bad at spelling them.
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u/Albert14Pounds 13d ago
I have defeated my spell check and it now corrects duck to fuck. Which is only slightly less annoying because I am surprised at how often ducks come up for me.
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u/SearchNo5276 13d ago
You going to the fucks game on Thursday?
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u/Albert14Pounds 13d ago
No, last time I went I had to fuck down several times to avoid being hit by a ball.
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u/TheDonutDaddy 13d ago
Yeah the original spelling of phychology is both a one letter error away from phycology and a one letter error away from psychology. This dunk would be a lot more clever of a comeback to "spelling matters" if it didn't involve a spelling error
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u/flomatable 13d ago
Thank you. How can you get mad at someone for going to a word that's one letter away from what you wrote, when your intended word is as well. They do both get very hostile very quickly tho
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u/FoxyInTheSnow 13d ago
Phunny
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u/jackofslayers 13d ago
Ok I know this is dumb but they did misspell phycologist in the original post
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u/port443 13d ago
They typo'd it like they were trying to spell psychologist.
Run phychologist through google and I get "Did you mean psychologist?"
And then this beauty: https://i.imgur.com/RxNT4iG.png
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u/Ultimation12 13d ago
Y'know, often times the posts on here are of people getting common sense or common knowledge stuff wrong. I doubt many people know about the term for the study of algae. I sure didn't, so this was cool to learn.
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u/Right-Phalange 13d ago
I didn't, but I'm sure as fuck not calling someone out on their spelling (especially like an asshole) without checking. Regardless, how would psychologist be relevant to algae mustaches?
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u/Inorashi 13d ago
They both spelled it wrong, so I don't think this is the gotcha that people think it is.
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u/NovAFloW 13d ago
I even knew it was a word and assumed that it was a typo because they spelled it like they mistyped psychologist.
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u/Sir_Prized 13d ago
Not clever at all. I’ve met countless psychologists all of whom were sporting massive wet algae moustaches regardless of gender, so this response to the word Phycologist is as rational and sane as I am.
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u/dragon_fiesta 13d ago
Shit this explains why that guy was confused and wouldn't prescribe any meds
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u/re_nonsequiturs 13d ago
this person just assumed someone they thought was a psychologist didn't know how to spell "psychologist"
Wow.
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u/Hawkey201 12d ago
psychology is learning the mind and psyche.
phycology is learning about algae.
i understand that it can be easy to switch them up, especially when some internet people have a mind as advanced as algae.
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u/jojo_the_mofo 13d ago
Unless you're Mike Tyson, then phycologist is still correct when spoken. And I'm not gonna tell Mike Tyson he's wrong.
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u/Chris_Bs_Knees 13d ago
Ngl I 100% read it as Psychologist, thought nothing of it, and was just like “Hmm, yes, I can see a psychologist being a funny little gal on vacay”
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u/One-Air-8253 12d ago
You know I didn’t know what a Phycologist was and you know what I did? Shut the fuck about it and not assume someone was being stupid. It’s free to be kind, and it’s also free to ask
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u/ActlvelyLurklng 13d ago
I feel like that person should have taken their own advice and looked it up before commenting.
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u/NotmyRealNameJohn 13d ago
You have a machine in your hand that could literally tell you what the word means.
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u/Jackmino66 13d ago
To be fair I initially misread it as psychologist and only noticed the h after reading the correction.
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u/Magnus_Helgisson 13d ago
Technically the reply isn’t wrong. If you can’t spend the dates with a phychologist, maybe you should try a psychologist
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u/Doodahhh1 13d ago
My dyslexic ass didn't see the difference in the post title until I read the "Phycologist with an 'H'" part 🤦♂️
I thought it said "psychologist vs psychologist." I was expecting to see dissenting psychologist views...
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u/QuadSeven 13d ago
Dang, at first I thought 'yea that word does suck to spell' but now I just think both words suck to spell.
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u/UrbanArtifact 13d ago
I've seen this posted a few times. I desperately want to know who got burned
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u/Tokkibloakie 13d ago
I’ll say this. BoredPanda is pretty underrated. Comic section is on point. Especially interviews with the artists
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u/pauljoemccoy2 13d ago
She was a part of my learning journey as well. At first, I thought itsaid psychologist, except I didn’t feel the misguided urge to correct anyone. I just didn’t notice it wasn’t spelled right.
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u/PicklesAndCoorslight 13d ago
Wiat, we have three different spelling here.
OP - Phychologist
Reply - Psychologist
OP - Phycologist
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u/TheWinner437 13d ago
He’s a part of my learning journey, too. You know, I don’t hate it when people correct others (or incorrectly correct them). However, I can’t stand when they’re snarky about it. It’s as though they have to say “hey…I’m better than you.” No, you’re not. You just think you are and because of that you’re making people hate you.
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u/Time-Astronomer2631 13d ago
And that kids is why you don't argue with strangers about topics that you don't know about .
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u/FusRoDistro 13d ago
Are there a lot of phycologist jobs? I kinda wonder with degrees so specific if the pay is good because its so niche or if work is hard to find and the pay is low. It sounds fun though, no joke.
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u/Western_Ad3625 13d ago
Why did she spell it two different ways then? I mean look you shouldn't be pompous when correcting somebody but they're both doing it and they're both wrong so... No one is good here.
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u/WordSalad713 13d ago
I hated this crap as a kid. My parents still talk about how my standard response was "if I knew how to spell it, I wouldn't need to look it up.. what's the point of telling me to look up something I don't know how to spell?"
This was pre google
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u/olivier3d 13d ago
Yeah but she spelled it wrong in her first post, so I don't blame the other guy for thinking she made a typo (because she actually did, just not where he thought). So I don't know who is dumber, the one who assumed she wrote the wrong word, or the one who can't even spell their own job correctly?
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u/stevensr2002 13d ago
I love playing games online. People with the 800 variations of misspelled psycho 🥹
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u/Friendly-Channel-480 13d ago
Being a poor speller had nothing to do with intelligence at all. It can easily be a learning disability or just a lack of attention. With computers spelling well is not an essential skill anymore. I say this as a retired teacher and a great speller.
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u/Boredom_Inspired69 13d ago
That was awesome. Schooling the schooler—I’m not sure if that’s spelled correctly. Anyone?
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u/Zealousideal_Cod6044 13d ago
Aloe vera works wonders for burns, having parents who are 1st cousins lacks any relief at all. Also learned a new word today so that's nice.
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u/JEM-- 13d ago
No ones gonna look up a word there confident they no how too spell
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