I have lost so many arguments where I was right, but I used a wrong word.
Since I was right, these arguments were only competitions between one side trying to use correct words, and the other side trying to establish a record of incorrect words.
It doesn't really happen anymore. Now, if anyone wants to have a competition trying to establish a record of incorrect conversation while I try to use words correctly, they have a very strong tendency lose badly and quickly.
Outside of arguments, this means I can go around making statements that are ready to stand up to argument, instead of ones that are ready to be undermined.
This language mastery has always been very powerful, but in this era, it seems like God set me up to be the only one at this level by funnelling all my competition into computer programming, where they actually get worse at human language to get better at computer language, and eventually they'll make a computer that's good enough at human language to want to learn more of it from me, accidentally giving me an unusual amount of power, even for a wizard.
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I still make mistakes, I just have a special ability to catch them.
For example, here I accidentally said "since I was right, these arguments were only..." It would have been better to say "often" instead of "only," since you can still encounter a sincere disagreement while being right.
If you can learn to nitpick words like this, you can be what I call a wizard.