You may be smart. But are you clever?

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

[Rosexøxø]

Well first post isn’t smart enough to spell Organisation as Organization lol 🥲

I actually think I’m more so Clever than Smart.

Smart is taught and memorized. Clever is expressive and improvisatory.

I memorized little, and little specifics, but I can improvise.

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

You are not knowledgeable enough to know that 'organization' is used in The US. And 'organisation' is used The UK, Australia, and New Zealand. And India predominantly uses British English.

At least seach what you think is wrong, before commenting on any media corporation.

[Rosexøxø]

You aren’t knowledgeable about me because you assume I don’t know that fact and you further don’t know I have a history of talking with Indian Speakers/ Indian-Americans and anything in between those. You further don’t know that the same is true for a few English speakers and myself as well.

What you fail to realize is the word Realize is not spelled as Realise. The ‘s’ is just too soft of a consonant in this word ‘realize,’ and in this particular instance, of the word “organisation.”

All other words are debatable and free, but the word ‘Recognize’ should be spelled with a ‘Z’ because no matter who is saying it, the pronunciation of the latter half of the word seems to have a harsher sound, so the Z would be more fitting.

Everything else is negotiable and interchangeable.

I know the color/ colour

Grey/ Gray

And other main switches between ‘ise’ and ‘ize.’

But yeah, you inspire me to read up more on these things. That’s the takeaway.

I still think it’s wrong, that’s not based on my knowledge alone… but my free opinion and rationaliZation, and sorry you grew up pronouncing a word from your previous people being enslaved by the ancient English people.

I’m NOT of English origin by the way. 👌

[Rosexøxø]

Nice Question. 👌

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

I could not care less for my ancestors. I am cold-blooded that way. But, I am studying for IELTS as well. Slowly, but steadily. And I also use Grammarly when typing. I have set English UK as my preferred language in the software.
So, I know when I am using a word's US or English variant. And I am not allowed to be in between the variants. I need to remain faithful to one variant. Any of the variants would do.

I cannot tell if you are screaming at or talking with me. But I like you for attending anything all the way till the end.😊I even admire you for that alone.

[DizzyDesii]

I was more booksmart but that was from a lot of studying and overachieving. Im certainly not a genius but I am clever

[OlderAndWiser]

I think the phenomenon you are describing is not smart people who are not clever; it is smart people who lack ambition or self-confidence.

[NathanDavis]

yes... also known as resourceful

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

Exactly.

[SnowedIn]

Sometimes. Probably less often than just smart.

[NamerOfStars]

Well, I did once eat an Australian game warden, does that count?

[jamesgoldman]

Yeah I know how to earn so I'd say I'm clever