Anonymous
Post 09/20/2017 08:22     Subject: Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
1. Totes! (Short for Totally)
2, True story (When describing an event which sounds a bit 'out there'

All said by the most irritating woman on earth.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2017 08:18     Subject: Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
Anonymous wrote:
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....


My family has always called it "the grocery" or "the market" but it's not because they are trying to be anything other than immigrants with broken English and using literal translation from their native language into English. "I need to stop at the grocery..." would be an exact translation.

Anonymous
Post 09/20/2017 08:05     Subject: Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
Anonymous wrote:
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.


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".


Illiterate? Data is plural. Datum is singular. You don't need an overlord to know this; try a dictionary.



You know, I also say "the data are" -- I even "the media are" -- but I also recognize that correct usage changes. Unless you also say, "I need to put together an agendum for the meeting!"?
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2017 07:55     Subject: Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
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.


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".


Sound illiterate for using the word correctly? You don't seem to know what illiterate means.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2017 07:51     Subject: Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
Anonymous wrote:
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.


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".


Wow. I usually go with "the data would indicate" or the "data supports." You must hate me. I don't care.
-a scientist


? Hate you because you don't know how to consistently use the term? You use it colloquially. Nothing wrong with that.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2017 07:49     Subject: Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
Anonymous wrote:I dont think most of you know what pretentious means.


This.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2017 07:45     Subject: Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
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.


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".


Illiterate? Data is plural. Datum is singular. You don't need an overlord to know this; try a dictionary.

Anonymous
Post 09/20/2017 07:34     Subject: Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
Anonymous wrote:"Do you know who I am?"



Reese whitherspoon
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2017 07:00     Subject: Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
Going 'off island' or 'off cape'.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2017 06:54     Subject: Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
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.


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".


Wow. I usually go with "the data would indicate" or the "data supports." You must hate me. I don't care.
-a scientist
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2017 01:19     Subject: Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Nursing and laughing so hard my baby became disconnected.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2017 01:17     Subject: Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
Anonymous wrote:I dont think most of you know what pretentious means.


What a pretentious statement.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2017 01:16     Subject: Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
Anonymous wrote:"the data say"


And "the datum says"
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2017 21:53     Subject: Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
Anonymous wrote:
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?


WT = White Trash

I'm from Indiana and we say 'go to the grocery'. Definitely not pretentious.
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2017 21:42     Subject: Re:Things that people say that make them sound too pretentious
"Where do you summer?" Or "we summer ...."