"Poverty sucks!"

People tell me that I am pretentious when I say that I don't like Prince.
For some reason, it's not pretentious when I say I don't like U2.

Anonymous wrote:DH's family says grocery instead of grocery store. Like, "I'm stopping at the grocery on the way home". So pretentious.

Now you guys are just making stuff up....

Anonymous wrote:DH's family says grocery instead of grocery store. Like, "I'm stopping at the grocery on the way home". So pretentious.

This is very common in certain parts of the country. It's one of the questions the NYT accent quiz asks when determining what type of American accent you have. You don't sound very well read.

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"

I think it's appropriate to do that for a proper noun...especially a first name, though.

I agree that most of this thread is truly baffling, if people think that what they are describing sounds pretentious. There is a high probability, though, that people would call me pretentious

I'm also a data scientist, and I'm pretty insistent in my professional life that data are plural...and when I speak casually I use it as a plural noun. "Data set" is singular.

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"

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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.

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"

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

I was thinking the same thing when I arrived at your post.

Anonymous wrote:"I only listen to Krautrock"

Thank you for the best response ever.

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.

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 only listen to Krautrock"

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

+1

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

Agree. In no circles is "cheer camp" pretentious.