Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Do you know who I am?"

Winner! This one will be hard to beat...

Oh, this is easy to nip in the bud. One of my favorite stories is when someone said this to a gate attendant of an airline. She promptly got on the PA system and asked for any companions of this woman to come forward since the woman evidently didn't know who she was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think most of these examples qualify as pretentious.

I think it's pretentious when people are speaking English and suddenly pronounce a French or Spanish word like a native speaker. Or if they have a name like Suzanne and insist that you pronounce it "SuzAHN"

Alex Trebek!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"the data say"

I'm probably just missing something, but what's wrong with this one? I thought it was the correct phrase.

If you use this, you either sound like a pretentious twat, or you sound functionally illiterate. I don't care that your overlords told you it is "correct".

[Anonymous]

Damn you autocracy

[Anonymous]

Wtf.

Autocracy

[Anonymous]

Why is this changing my words? I see what I am typing.

[Anonymous]

I learned here that saying 'Brava' to a female is pretentious. I'm ok with that- at least I'm not ignorant and uneducated.

An American friend once informed me that it would be seen as pretentious in America to put beverages or condiments in non labeled crystal or stoneware instead of utilizing original containers. This seemed like something a cave dweller would do- we just never had labels on the table while growing up.

I must have an arsenal of pretension as I am British as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember being in college and going to an old lady, old money event. One woman said, "We found the best filipino au pair. She's teaching Zachary jai alai!"

I don't think that's a thing that 'people' say, but it just came off as one of the more odd things I had heard to that point. I knew no one who had an au pair.

sure she was rich? flips are pretty cheap help. a french girl would be pricey.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I learned here that saying 'Brava' to a female is pretentious. I'm ok with that- at least I'm not ignorant and uneducated.

An American friend once informed me that it would be seen as pretentious in America to put beverages or condiments in non labeled crystal or stoneware instead of utilizing original containers. This seemed like something a cave dweller would do- we just never had labels on the table while growing up.

I must have an arsenal of pretension as I am British as well.

Not pretentious. Just unnecessary dirty dishes. But if you're washing the dishes, then I don't care.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I dont think most of you know what pretentious means.

I have the "grocery" in laws. When they say that, they absolutely SOUND pretentious. I know them and know they are genuine old money DC, but DH just sounds like a tool when he says it to our peers. It's the small markers of old money when you're a regular Joe that comes across as ridiculous sounding.

I am from WT stock and we all say grocery.

[Anonymous]

Neesh instead of ni ch

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dont think most of you know what pretentious means.

I have the "grocery" in laws. When they say that, they absolutely SOUND pretentious. I know them and know they are genuine old money DC, but DH just sounds like a tool when he says it to our peers. It's the small markers of old money when you're a regular Joe that comes across as ridiculous sounding.

I am from WT stock and we all say grocery.

What WT?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think most of you know what pretentious means.

Rather.
Quite plebeian of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think most of you know what pretentious means.

Rather.
Quite plebeian of them.

Coming back to say that as the scion of a old aristocratic family, I'll talk and live as I jolly well please.
Remember that it's only the middle class that is afraid of what the neighbors think...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"the data say"

I'm probably just missing something, but what's wrong with this one? I thought it was the correct phrase.

It's the correct phrase, but I'm pretty sure if you're throwing around "the data say" or "according to the data" or anything like that in regular, everyday conversation, you're pretentious. Or at the very least, obnoxious.

Not pretentious, just correct.