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Official words that make you sound pretentious thread
Official words that make you sound pretentious thread
I'll start:
Ostensibly
"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
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I find that people who use it tend to overuse it. Not only that, but they often misuse it.
"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
I'm not pretentious, I'm just illustrated in consonance with the more pedestrian significance of that particular combination of morphemes.
"Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --Solon
I'm not pretentious, I'm just illustrated in consonance with the more pedestrian significance of that particular combination of morphemes.
Oh man, oh man, oh man.
Pretentious - acting like a pre-teen: "Don't act so pretentious, that's ignorant."
Consonance - all letters but a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y: "Slav names have no consonance. I said Slav, not slave. Idiot."
Pedestrian - a person who walks in the street: "LOL, you don't take sick kids to a pedestrian. Idiot."
Morphemes - plural form of a narcortic: "Nurse, more morpheme, please."
Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!
For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.
Not long ago an obituary appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune that said the recently departed had "died doing what he enjoyed most—watching BYU lose."
Upon rejecting the Beatles, Dick Rowe told Brian Epstein of the January 1, 1962 audition for Decca, which signed Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead.
"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
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