>win spelling bee >be considered "smart"

>>7850669

Op can't spell

>>7850669
Well people who can't spell are more likely to be stupid, so there's that. If you don't understand the language you speak, you're also not very likely to be able to grasp the intricacies of mathematics and science.

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>americans

>>7850669
you still didn't get over that second place, it seems

>>7850693
You think about us more than we do about you

>>7850669
>you're language has such a fucked phonetic system that it's considered an achievement if you've learned spelling properly

>>7850977
I thought about my diarrhoea more than almost anything in the past few days, take this as you like

>>7851010
>fucked phonetic system
lojban master race reporting in

>tfw they asked me to spell "vinaigrette" as a young boy in the spelling bee
>tfw I left out the second "i"
>tfw my dad looked so disappointed

>3rd grade spelling bee
>my first word to spell is September
> s e p t e m b e r
>"sorry that's incorrect"
>"the first letter of September is capital s"

God fucking damn it.

>>7852510
No way. No. Way. Did this really happen? Because I have autism and this just made me fucking furious.

I need to go take a walk after reading this.

>>7852523
I'm sorry, its real. I guess they were stressing capitalization or something. What did I know, I had never been in a spelling bee before.