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What’s Your Hidden Talent?

July 15, 2015

The ladies of The BBar have asked bloggers to share their hidden talents. My hidden talent isn’t singing (I can’t carry a tune), nor is it twirling a baton. Clearly, I’d never make it in the Miss America pageant.

My hidden talent? I can spot a grammatical error from a mile away.

I blame the fact that my mom was an English teacher when I was young. Or maybe it’s because I went to Catholic school? Either way, I learned from a young age how to properly use a comma and when to use a semi-colon, and I was a sentence-diagramming fiend. (Seriously, why does no one know how to use a semi-colon? It’s really not that hard.) I’m not sure if I can even call this a talent, but let’s just go with it…

How, you may ask, does this talent help me in my everyday life? Friends, if I’m at a restaurant and there’s an error on the menu, I’ll see it right away. And if I go back to the same restaurant and see it again, it will really bother me.

I know that autocorrect can be a huge pain because it reads words instead of phrases or sentences, and I don’t use grammar perfectly in my everyday (just ask my besties who see my texts all day), but if you’re one of those bloggers who captions an Instagram photo, “Friday’s are what’s up,” and then it stays like that (which means you probably meant to write it that way), you can be sure that I am judging. I probably even want to say something, but that would be kind of rude. But at least now you’ll know that I see your grammatical errors, and they are driving me crazy.

What’s your hidden talent?

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  1. BLovedBoston says

    July 15, 2015 at 10:53 am

    That's a great talent to have for your future kids – they might love it or hate it lol! xo, Biana –BlovedBoston

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  2. Alyssa says

    July 15, 2015 at 1:30 pm

    My guess based on how my sisters feel about it is hate it! ๐Ÿ™‚

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  3. Kelly says

    July 15, 2015 at 3:18 pm

    I was just out with a friend and saw a spelling error on an outdoor sign, and then a typo in a menu. It can get very annoying… Don't people spell check? Especially on something that is costing them money?

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  4. Carrie @carrieloves says

    July 15, 2015 at 4:40 pm

    Oh gosh, don't spend too much time reading my blog, I use the dash and dot, dot, dot with reckless and inappropriate abandon! But spelling errors would drive me nuts, I would hate to have misspelled something and not caught it.

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  5. Beauty and the Pitch says

    July 15, 2015 at 2:17 pm

    Oh man, that is a great talent…. but now I'm scared hah since I'm the worst at grammar. I guess LMK if you ever see an error on my posts ๐Ÿ™‚

    xox
    Sanah | wwww.beautyandthepitch.com

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  6. Carly says

    July 15, 2015 at 7:59 pm

    That's a useful hidden talent! Although, I bet reading blogs with poor use of commas drives you crazy (guilty!). My hidden talent is freakish…..I can cross my toes. I know so useful!
    Dresses & Denim

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  7. Sophie Isabella says

    July 20, 2015 at 10:16 am

    Thats's new, but very interesting at the same time! I understand you're (see what I did there aha) frustration though.

    I've nominated you for the Creative Blogger Award!
    http://cherriesandperfume.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/creative-blogger-award.html

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