*Originally posted by dropzone *
**No, a bit pretentious was ending your post with the “non?” Half the post in French was pretty darned pretentious. **
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Hee! Told ya I was a show-off! 
I’m so pretentious that I use the word “vegetous” to denote vigor, and then act surprised when someone things it means the same as “vegetal.”
I’m so pretentious that I have worked the word “sphinges” into conversations about Egypt, even though there’s only one sphinx worth talking about.
Un instant s’il vous plaît!
I’m sooooo pretentious that I’ll point out there was a serious gender error made by Creaky!!!
That should have been “… et peau blanche.”
La peau. C’est au féminin.
So there.
Ha.
Elenfair, a pretentious francophone from Orléans, Canada.
I’m so pretentious that i try to work the fact that I have a degree in philosophy into any given conversation.
I also like to mention that my two A*s at GCSE were Latin and Ancient Greek.
My SO, the king of pretentiousness (who also has a degree in philosophy. It’s thrilling stuff.), has been known to start conversations with the words “Of course, you know that was based on the egyptian folk tale…”. He’s currently reading Robert Graves and can work that into any given conversation. I’m bad, he’s terrible. Bless.
Fran
PS I could never, never order in French in a French restaurant. Although i’m pefectly capable of doing it, I think I would die of shame at being so damn tacky. But then I’m English.
Oops! I wondered about that after I typed it, but was too lazy to check my dictionary. That’s what I get for being a pretentious lazy show-off! I bet I won’t forget that peau is feminine anytime soon! Merci! 
Eh eh Creaky…
That’ll teach ya.
La prochaine fois, utilise ton Petit Robert!
Or else, I’m so pretentious that I will make a “manteau” with your “peau”!
E.
There’s an old joke in aviation:
“How do you know you are at a party with a pilot?”
Answer: “He’ll tell you.”
I personify this joke. Can’t help it. I have the enthusiasm of a convert about flying. My apologies if you have been to a party with me recently (Hi NY Dopers!).
Hmm…mostly pretentious about sciencey things…able to make modern physics jokes in casual conversation…I have a penchant for mentioning that there are different sizes of infinity…the like. Of course, I also get to run around the humanities building on a reasonably regular basis, and do math presentations on proofs of God’s existence…
I carry Grey Poupon around in my car, just in case.
I e-mail Alex Trebeck to correct his pronunciation.
When I say “Hi Opal” I pronounce it O-pell.
We occasionally refer to ourself using the editorial (or royal, if you will) plural.
I make a point of bringing Anglo-Saxon or Latin origins of words into a discussion if it’s even tangentially relevant, in order to establish my knowledge of both Anglo-Saxon and Latin.
I sometimes quote Dante in Italian, although I do not, in fact, speak Italian. (It’s amazing what you can do with a bilingual edition and a couple of Romance languages under your belt.)
I pronounce “Van Gogh” in the Dutch fashion.
I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes.
Katisha…
But can you whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore?
I’m so pretentious that all my friends know that:
I can make Kraft Minute Rice in 45 seconds.
Yes, I can! Though the multipart bits are kinda difficult.
(I was an assistant stage manager for Pinafore about a month ago, so I’ve certainly heard it enough! :D)
[hijack] Katisha…I knew you had to be familiar with the works of Gilbert and Sullivan when I saw that line about the Frogs chorus! I love the Patter songs. Those songs really do stick in your head, don’t they?[/hiack]
“Pretentious? Moi?”
[sub]Old Fawlty Towers reference. God that was a great show![/sub]
I am so pretentious, I constantly throw out nuggets of intelligentsia which I have gleaned from my time at the SDMB. . . and I don’t give a single Goddamned one of you credit either. 
Tomorrow I plan to go to work as usual in the factory where I work, and speak in French, Latin and Italian, conjugate Latin verbs and discuss the finer points of philosophy and Grey Poupon, while singing about Frogs (all with a great deal of vegetous).
Thanks all.
Sir Rhosis
I have a bad habit of comparing every work of literature to Paradise Lost. Only a Joyceophile can trump me, and they have to have read the Wake, otherwise it is a tie.
Pour un instant would have been better, although your version is technically OK, too.
[sub](I’m so pretentious that I correct a minor mistake because the most obvious one had already been pointed out.)[/sub]
So do I, but I’d love to hear you try.
(I’m pretentious about my own language, even though nobody outside my country actually speaks it, of course!)
You do, Coldie? Last time I heard you pronounce anything, it was a mixture between a southern Dutch accent and that awful mokum slang, hardly something that comes even near proper Dutch fashion.
(See, I’m even so prententious that I dare to critique one of the most beloved and respected mods on this board. I’m also pretentious enough that I dare to misquote someone slightly so it makes my post make more sense).
Gee, was it that bad?
(I was fearing you’d come in here, Aghris. Damn you!)