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

  • 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)