Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious

[Anonymous]

"This album sound so much more textured and rich on the 180-gram vinyl. But what really made the difference was buying a tube amplifier. "

[Anonymous]

Saying "lanai" instead of porch or deck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"This album sound so much more textured and rich on the 180-gram vinyl. But what really made the difference was buying a tube amplifier. "

Yes! Plus correcting people when they say "record!" I said "record" and a millennial hipster corrected me saying, "it's vinyl!!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Saying "lanai" instead of porch or deck.

But lanai is also a Golden Girls reference so it gets a pass

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Saying they live in North Potomac. Or North Bethesda.

I guess the US Postal Service is pretentious, then.

You again.

No shame living in Rockville!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have never heard anyone call it anything other than a credenza. The facilities people where I work call it a credenza. There is nothing pretentious about it.

The office supply people seem to have taken over the word "credenza" to mean "file cabinet with wood or melamine instead of metal." Not to be confused with "cadenza" which is a little musical interlude. My favorite is when furniture companies try to sell you a "bedroom suit."

So while "credenza" might have worked in your grandparents' day for the thing in your dining room that you store the silver and placemats in, it's now a sideboard.

Now THIS! This is pretentious!

+100

[Anonymous]

Usage of "myself" as a subject pronoun!

For example, "Tim and myself were discussing this project."

WHY WHY WHY do people do this? It seems to be something of a growing trend. When someone does this, the blunder is usually accompanied by an earnest look that appears to hint at the speaker's belief in his/her own sophistication.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My pretentious (also charming and eccentric southern) grandmother called her sideboard a hunt board. But she was really into steeple chasing and so would invite the "hunt" back to the house where the buffet was set on the hunt board.

I didn't realize this would be perceived as pretentious until I met people who didn't have grandmothers who were into horses.

I love that. Makes me think of camilla duchess of Cornwall.

But a hunt board is different than a sideboard. The hunt board has longer legs because it goes outside (the servants carry it, presumably) and riders get refreshments from it while still on horseback (hence the need for it to be taller).

My Midwestern mom called our sideboard a buffet. When I was shopping online, I found that the thing I wanted was often referred to as an enfilade.

Love,
Someone who had to repress a snicker when a person at a party actually asked me "Do you ride?" I thought that line only existed in jokes.

We have another winner for most pretentious post!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Saying "lanai" instead of porch or deck.

This is normal in Florida, FYI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Saying they live in North Potomac. Or North Bethesda.

I guess the US Postal Service is pretentious, then.

You again.

No shame living in Rockville!

Sure, if you do live in Rockville. But if you don't, there's no sense in saying that you do. I don't understand this obsessed hatred of North Bethesda. Do you also hate on "Maine", on grounds that when you were growing up, it was just plain Massachusetts and everybody was fine with that? Or maybe you could work on getting the City of Rockville to annex all the parts of the county that you consider "Rockville"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Saying they live in North Potomac. Or North Bethesda.

I guess the US Postal Service is pretentious, then.

You again.

No shame living in Rockville!

Sure, if you do live in Rockville. But if you don't, there's no sense in saying that you do. I don't understand this obsessed hatred of North Bethesda. Do you also hate on "Maine", on grounds that when you were growing up, it was just plain Massachusetts and everybody was fine with that? Or maybe you could work on getting the City of Rockville to annex all the parts of the county that you consider "Rockville"?

North Bethesda is Rockville. We don't think less of people who say Rockville but you're pretentious when you say North Bethesda. It doesn't exist except in the minds of people who think it's impressive to live in Bethesda. The post office works off zip codes, not cities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Saying they live in North Potomac. Or North Bethesda.

I guess the US Postal Service is pretentious, then.

You again.

No shame living in Rockville!

Sure, if you do live in Rockville. But if you don't, there's no sense in saying that you do. I don't understand this obsessed hatred of North Bethesda. Do you also hate on "Maine", on grounds that when you were growing up, it was just plain Massachusetts and everybody was fine with that? Or maybe you could work on getting the City of Rockville to annex all the parts of the county that you consider "Rockville"?

North Bethesda is Rockville. We don't think less of people who say Rockville but you're pretentious when you say North Bethesda. It doesn't exist except in the minds of people who think it's impressive to live in Bethesda. The post office works off zip codes, not cities.

Yes, it does, and the zip code is for North Bethesda. Really, it's like stomping your feet and saying that "bra" is pretentious because the correct word is "brassiere", or possible "corset". But if you want to do that, go ahead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Saying they live in North Potomac. Or North Bethesda.

I guess the US Postal Service is pretentious, then.

You again.

No shame living in Rockville!

Sure, if you do live in Rockville. But if you don't, there's no sense in saying that you do. I don't understand this obsessed hatred of North Bethesda. Do you also hate on "Maine", on grounds that when you were growing up, it was just plain Massachusetts and everybody was fine with that? Or maybe you could work on getting the City of Rockville to annex all the parts of the county that you consider "Rockville"?

North Bethesda is Rockville. We don't think less of people who say Rockville but you're pretentious when you say North Bethesda. It doesn't exist except in the minds of people who think it's impressive to live in Bethesda. The post office works off zip codes, not cities.

Yes, it does, and the zip code is for North Bethesda. Really, it's like stomping your feet and saying that "bra" is pretentious because the correct word is "brassiere", or possible "corset". But if you want to do that, go ahead.

But the post office shipped my corset to Maine!
Whatever with your analogies. Just own it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My pretentious (also charming and eccentric southern) grandmother called her sideboard a hunt board. But she was really into steeple chasing and so would invite the "hunt" back to the house where the buffet was set on the hunt board.

I didn't realize this would be perceived as pretentious until I met people who didn't have grandmothers who were into horses.

I love that. Makes me think of camilla duchess of Cornwall.

But a hunt board is different than a sideboard. The hunt board has longer legs because it goes outside (the servants carry it, presumably) and riders get refreshments from it while still on horseback (hence the need for it to be taller).

My Midwestern mom called our sideboard a buffet. When I was shopping online, I found that the thing I wanted was often referred to as an enfilade.

Love,
Someone who had to repress a snicker when a person at a party actually asked me "Do you ride?" I thought that line only existed in jokes.

We have another winner for most pretentious post!

True about the Hunt board - it was carried outsie to be used by those still on horseback and is significantly taller than a normal sideboard. Its not prententious to know this. People acquire knoledge in many ways and knwoing things dioesnt make you prententious. How you say it may, acting as if everyone shuld know that is obnoxious, bu tknowing facts in and of themselves is not pretentious.

As for someone asking "do you ride," there is nothing prententious about it. If you ride, you ride. I dont ride but all kinds of folks ride and its a perfectly harmless question..

[Anonymous]

I have heard this 3 times now and I cringe.

These hurricanes are horrible ... my Spring Break is ruined I hear Turks and Caico still won't be ready in Spring.