Use a Virgo for a dictionary

I keep reading that Virgos are like human dictionaries. Do you feel that you're intelligent? Do other people think that you're smart? Do you sometimes give unsolicited advice that you believe would truly be helpful and accurate, but it makes you comes off as a know-it-all?

I have grown ass adults--people with degrees in majors with 20 syllables, asking me how to spell words like "tomorrow" and "meaningful". I'm like "really?!!" People always do that, "Hey, C, how do you spell..."

Or they'll ask me what a word means, and it's always something that makes me wonder how they manage to walk and chew gum at the same time, without toppling over. A co-worker asked me what the meaning of someone being "bubbly" was. I was like (O_O).

No clue when I turned into dictionary.com.

I mean, I should take it as a compliment...but it's more of an annoyance.

As far as advice giving goes, I have learned that most people don't really want advice--they just want an ear to listen/shoulder to lean or cry on/nodding figure to vent to, so this is what I offer. Now, if they ask me what I'd do, or suggest, that's different. People usually don't take my advice though, until the sh1t hits the fan, and they realize what I said has come to pass. Suddenly, they're asking, "so, how did you say I should do this again?..."

I also get people trying to get me drum up a quote they want to say to someone else in a given situation. For whatever reason, they believe their own phrasing would be too harsh, immature, or ineffective...

Like I said, a compliment--I guess...but an annoyance as well...

Wgamador: You know, the fact that you said that you don't consider yourself intelligent is being modest. Virgos are known for being modest. I'm just like you as well when it comes to information that I do not know. I ask what something means if I do not know what it means. Faking it is crazy. There are people that do that. I don't want to get caught in a lie, LoL.

CLCNY30: I do sometimes look at people that I know that have degrees and think, how did they get to where they are? It's like they cheated to get there, LoL. You know, when I read about how people would call you to vent. You're right, they just want someone to listen to them. If I ask for advice then it means that I am actually asking for advice, LoL. I will get many different opinions and then make an average of what will work.

I like to have an extended vocabulary all the time.
It's the pure memory power that makes it easy for us Virgos.

I always give unsolicited advice and usually get called cocky and know it all.

Posted by everevolvingepithet
Seriously, most are proud they can count to 12 on both hands.

ROFLOL Obviously you've been here before.

Posted by Cajunspirit
I like to have an extended vocabulary all the time.
It's the pure memory power that makes it easy for us Virgos.

I always give unsolicited advice and usually get called cocky and know it all.

It is more than memory power. Well at least with me it is. I just love learning. If I don't know what something means, I look it up and then I learn other things that stem from it in the process.

I have learned not to give unsolicited advice. I don't like to be looked at as a know-it-all. I realize that not all are interested in things as deeply as I am so I don't make them feel like they should be. In the past, I have been told that I was bourgie. That word was used in lack of a more appropiate word but I know what they meant. I had to reevaluate myself.

Must admit I've been told for years I'm "wordy," as in I always know the right word for something, am asked how to spell words all the time, and have been asked by a number of people if I'm a journalist or have some sort of literary occupation. Have been called a "walking dictionary" more than once! I think it's more than just our memories, Caje . . . though that definitely helps. I think it's our innate affinity for verbal expression, communication, and intellectuality. Mercury rules us and that's the speech planet, you know. Hence. 😉

Btw, I won almost all my class spelling bees as a kid too.

http://www.cafeastrology.com/mercury.html (Especially the 2nd paragraph.)

I like this thread. I have an innate tendency to use way more words than necessary to get a thought across. I could usually say what I mean with half the words I just tend to speak so diplomatically that I want to make sure everyone may understand and nothing is misconstrued.

I agree with the steel trap memory. Haven't had more than a year of college but I can recite the active ingredients in all of our pool products at work, not because I ever had to take a test on it, just because I like big words.

Those 3" tablets you use in swimming pools, yeah, they're mainly sodium trichloro-s-triazinetrione with a 90% available chlorine level and 10% cyanuric acid. lol And that's one of the short ones.

Yeeeesh, people jumping all over my wording.😛

I said our memory power helps, it is far from the sole provider for our uncanny intellect. As rightly stated, Mercury, the ruler of communication, we inherent from this.

I find the common folk keep it hard to be sesquipedalian. They always harp about our need to make things more perplexed than necessary.

Their liking for simplicity is palpable, however, we do fancy our expressions, don't we?

Posted by Cajunspirit
. . . . however, we do fancy our expressions, don't we?

Yeah. Buncha arrogant snots, ain't we? 😄

I do sometimes get internally exasperated when I have to explain what I mean when I am talking. I called a guy an Adonis and he thought that I was calling out someone else's name, LoL. He got all pissed.

I was on the phone the other day with a friend of mine and she was trying to make me feel bad about my hunger for knowledge. She told me that ignorance is bliss. No....ignorant is ignorant. She says, "Everybody doesn't want to know EVERYTHING." It feels good to know that she thinks that I know everything, LoL.

Posted by everevolvingepithet
"It is more than memory power. Well at least with me it is. I just love learning. If I don't know what something means, I look it up and then I learn other things that stem from it in the process. "
Yep, that's a fun thing to do.🙂

😉

Posted by everevolvingepithet

Posted by venusianbull

Posted by everevolvingepithet
Seriously, most are proud they can count to 12 on both hands.

ROFLOL Obviously you've been here before.

Hahaha, 'local folk'.Gotta love 'em though ey ? 🙂

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Most definitely, a source of rich enjoyment. 🙂

Okay so maybe this will sum up things...

Here these things before?

"You think you know everything"
(you just told the person your a virgo) "Oh, you're one of THOSE"

but keep in mind you will always here this:

"Hey [yourname], can you figure out how to get this printer to work?"
"Oh, man! I was looking for you, I need you..." (key words, "need you")

We're like the black sheep & parent of the 12 so that equates at least externally speaking to the LEAST FUN...

but who do the kids run to when the going gets tough? mom & dad...
Either way, I guess it's true we tend to offer advice or opinions without being asked but the REASON is b/c
we are constantly asked to put their thoughts through our sniper rifle logic circuits and give them the goods...
So when you are the "go-to" for a lot of people you become preemptive in your dolings out.

Case in point, code monkey for this site.. how about an "EDIT POST, DELETE POST" tool— waaaay awesome huh?

Anyhow to clarify real quick (hit post instead of preview by mistake sorry for double) Your brain says

"I see a fork in the road, they are just going to ask me soon enough anyway, I might as well just start dishing out the answer now.."

UGH!! so wish there was an edit.. F'ing HEAR not HERE!!! way to go dude!

Posted by kevinflynn
UGH!! so wish there was an edit.. F'ing HEAR not HERE!!! way to go dude!

😆 You're funny! Hahahahaha!

I'm more like a resource info switchboard.

Posted by VulcanLass
I'm more like a resource info switchboard.

Hahaha! Do you like it or does it get on your nerves?