I once worked with a young tech CEO who wore a Patek Phillippe Nautilus. It was impossible not to giggle once you noticed that when he checked the time he always reflexively pulled out his phone, then remembered to look at his watch.
Oh well, at least he wasn’t one of those 1970’s “marketing executive” types who wore French cuffs in the daytime and always gestured with their wrists forward.
There’s a tendency in McMansions these days to put a glass wall in between the foyer and the garage, so that guests can be wowed by your automotive sculpture. I’m not saying they aren’t works of art, I’m just saying the fake columns out front were enough to announce your new wealth.
And it’s almost too obvious to type out, but clothing and accessories with designer logos, especially where the logos themselves are the primary design feature. Paying a fortune to make yourself a walking advertisement is such a sad attempt at joining a club that you’d never enjoy.
I guess I must be pretentious, then, because I can’t abide “comfterble.” If the “t” was meant to be pronounced before the “r,” the word would be spelled with the “t” before the “r.”
I’m working my way through this hilarious, informative thread, post by post, and I would like to remark your lovely pun on Shogun before I forget it, which is entirely possible with another 200 of these beauties to read.
“Informative”? you ask. I’ve had to look up a half-dozen words and concepts just to get halfway. Where, oh where, have some of these people gone? This ain’t facebook, I pretentiously proclaim.
Not so much pretention as piety, but for some reason pronouncing “Catholic” as three syllables “Ka-THO-lick”) as opposed to two (“Kath-LICK”) always bugs me. Once again, that could be accent or regionalism, though.
Celebrities touting their carbon neutral toxic free and cruelty free luxury brands aimed at other pretentious buyers who can afford hand soaps and candles at $45 apiece. Also celebrities who inspire to philanthropy by lending their image to a cause or product that kicks back a just small percentage to a charity. It’s self serving and falls short imo.
I was thinking of that scene as I posted. Edie Falco also says it that way, I think in the first ep. of The Sopranos (“I’m trying to be a good Ka-Tho-Lick and you’re going to hell when you die!”). I also worked alongside a guy who was insufferably smug about many things, and when discussing his faith (nobody had asked), went the whole five syllables (“Roh-man-ka-tho-lick”) landing on each one. That’s probably more where I got my negative feelings about the pronunciation.
I’ve never heard Catholic pronounced with the accent on the second syllable. I say either “KATH-lick” or “KATH-uh-lick.” So I use either two or three syllables, though the unaccented second syllable can sound swallowed.
COMPREHENSIVE
especially broad in sympathies, tastes, or interests
For this definition, I’ve heard it pronounced “cathHOLic,” by visiting celebrities back in art school. Condescending, pretentious, exactly like the Juliard scene in Tár.
Naming a subdivision after animals that made the area their happy home until bulldozers drove them out, like “Deer Hollow” or “Fox Run”. Around here subdivision names are sometimes made classy by adding “Shire” at the end.
