Most Pretentious food names youve heard : r Cooking - Reddit It's pretentious to use french in non french speaking countries to make things sound fancy, yes Of course it is If you were in France, then it would be different But to use french words in the names of your food just to make them sound fancy is obviously pretentious
r unpopularopinion on Reddit: Pretentious, fine dining food can be . . . Pretentious, fine dining food can be absolutely excellent and the people who hate on it have never eaten the real deal I see a lot of people talk massive shit about high end ($$$$) restaurants with comments like “imagine paying that much for such a small plate!
Rant: Academics are rude and pretentious : r GradSchool - Reddit I think some academics are incredibly rude and pretentious Some are fake, insecure, and some lack any social skills whatsoever I have been a professor for 22 years, and now this is like water off a duck's back I deal with people that are reasonably sane and decent, and ignore the rest
English Academic Writing Is Mostly Pretentious Nonsense . . . - Reddit Every Single Profession in the world has its own lingo And that's okay It's not necessarily pretentious--though it can be But really, there's only a handful of big words in the humanities compared to the various names for diseases, body parts, chemicals, processes, calculations, proofs, compounds
What is the most pretentious film ever? : r movies - Reddit Truly pretentious films, on the other hand, tend to be nothing more than a bully pulpit for the writer director to offer whatever they perceive to be as universal truths Bonus points for unnecessary juxtaposition of any attempts to discuss beauty or love with images of a scatological or offensively pornographic nature, as if by their mere
I think most Modern Art is pretentious, takes nearly no . . . - Reddit I think there's a big mixup between art that's good (whatever that means--potentially trolls duping rich people) and art that's impressive (requiring a creative mind and or a skilled hand the viewer can appreciate)
What makes music pretentious? : r progrockmusic - Reddit Pretentious means "Pretending to have more (immaterial) worth that what is actually present" Forms of art have no conscious, so they cannot pretend anything The artist's themselves can be pretentious about how they describe what they create, but that is a reflection of the attitude of the artist, not the art itself
The term ‘pretentious’ is misused a lot in criticizing things. Whenever a piece of media (art, movie, story, game, etc) isn’t particularly straightforward in its message or presentation, it’s decried as ‘pretentious’; as if to say it’s filled with a kind of misplaced sense of haughty self-satisfaction, and is meant to be something that only ‘educated upper class folk’ could enjoy
Why do so many people get really pretentious around wine . . . - Reddit People are pretentious about anything and everything IT Help Desk people are pretentious about their technical knowledge Baristas are pretentious about the way they pour coffee Hipsters about indie music Scientists and MBAs about everything