Something that makes you annoyed as hell when it really shouldn't, or something that makes you feel like a nerd for getting annoyed at it.

I'll start with a combination of the two: When people call chiptune music "bitcrunch"

nerd kitty-cri-screm

  • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    putting on a air

    I think the more correct way to phrase this idiom would be "putting on airs"

    Anyway I have the same response but the problem with the English language is that most conventionally accepted pronunciations are "wrong"

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      Nope,

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/air#:~:text=%3A%20outward%20appearance%20of%20a%20thing,an%20air%20of%20mystery

      And colloquial English isn't considered wrong and if it's a common misproniniation then it's just a pronunciation. That's how language works, but one individual who clings onto pronouncing something wrong is different.

      • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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        2 months ago

        Meriam Webster, gross

        Anyway, you'll see with that usage it should have been "without putting on an air of pretension" or something like that

        If you read slightly further down the page, you'll see

        an artificial or affected manner put on airs

        Which is explained further here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Put_on_airs (NATOpedia, also gross)