Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious

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

Well I do this, more to make fun of my front porch....I was sitting out on the Lanai when in reality it is a stoop.

With that said, it is not pretentious in Hawaii.

This is a good point. You don't always know whether a person using a word is being the opposite of pretentious, if it's an often-used word for where and how they grew up.

Actually, a word that has pretentious origins and is commonly used is "townhome." It's a townhouse.

It's a rowhouse.

Townhouses are usually condos. Rowhouses are in DC specifically (other places usually call them other names) and are not condos...

Town house/row house/whatever is often a regional thing, not a class thing.

Right, it's replacing "house" with "home" that's the pretentious bit.

I think they are called rowhomes in Philly.

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I say Ee-conomincs vs Eck-omonics and I love the pretentiousness of it.

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Surprised no one has said “First world problems”.

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Anonymous wrote:I say Ee-conomincs vs Eck-omonics and I love the pretentiousness of it.

Or fi-NANCE

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The pretentious customer made a point to say that he paid CASH for the $250K Bentley parked in his garage, so please be careful when walking near it. Later makes a fuss about the cost of a small repair at his house.

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When they refer to people as 'the poors'.

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Referring to their summer house, shore house, ski chalet, etc

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Anonymous wrote:"the data say"

And "the datum says"

YES! You got it. i was howling at those who didn't get it.