Anonymous
10/16/2017 17:10
Subject: Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:"the data say"
And "the datum says"
YES! You got it. i was howling at those who didn't get it.
Anonymous
10/16/2017 16:41
Subject: Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
Referring to their summer house, shore house, ski chalet, etc
Anonymous
10/16/2017 16:30
Subject: Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
When they refer to people as 'the poors'.
Anonymous
10/16/2017 16:19
Subject: Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
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.
Anonymous
10/13/2017 20:31
Subject: Re:Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
Anonymous wrote:I say Ee-conomincs vs Eck-omonics and I love the pretentiousness of it.
Or fi-NANCE
Anonymous
10/13/2017 20:20
Subject: Re:Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
Surprised no one has said “First world problems”.
Anonymous
10/13/2017 16:59
Subject: Re:Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
I say Ee-conomincs vs Eck-omonics and I love the pretentiousness of it.
Anonymous
10/13/2017 15:26
Subject: Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.