Pseudo intellectuality always cracks me up

[Loonman]

If you can spot the grammatical error, you get the prize*.

From craigslist:

"Let me start ab ovo... As of late, my love life has been a jeremiad. There has been no prince charming, no favonian breezes to stir my heart strings. I have found to be living a potemkin village to hide the sorrow that lies deep within my heart. I have an impressive congregation of past boyfriends who have misprized me, and I am tired of it. I am now seeking a teetotaler for tete-a-tete meetings, an errant lover, with a ludic personality, to bring me delectation, provide pin money, who is also a deipnosophist, and not querulous.
Could you be him?"









*prize not guaranteed

[enki23]

1. i have found to be living...(etc.)?

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[GOPisEvil]

2. Shouldn't phrases in foreign laguages be italicized?

ab ovo and tete-a-tete :-)

[Speck Tater]

3. Also, Prince Charming is a proper noun and should be capitalized. NT

[bhairava]

4. What's worse?

"Pseudo intellectuality" (sic) or irony and/or humour deficiency? It's a toss up in this case.

[DrWeird]

5. lol

nt

[sound head]

6. How quaint.

It would behoove this personage to eschew circumlocutious language and transcribe in a more uncontrived manner, me thinks.

[catzies]

7. Incorrect pronoun as object of preposition?

"Could you be he?

:crazy:

[Loonman]

9. That's the one!

:toast:

[catzies]

16. *beaming* Yay!

O8)

:toast:

[trof]

8. Now hold on a minute!

I happen to be a psuedo intellectual and I can prove it.

Almost 40 years ago I was applying for a management type job.
Part of the drill was a session with their industrial (?) psychologist.
Later, my boss asked if I'd like to see the report?
Sure.
Part of it read "Mr. trof is a psuedo intellectual...".
Honest to god.
I guess I'd rather be psuedo than nowhere close.

Well...some people call me Psuedo, but my real name is Mr. trof."
;-)

[NorthernSpy]

12. a pity...

... psuedo being so hard to clean and all. You psuedo intellectuals should consider going with pleather, or even naugahyde.


Mary

[displacedtexan]

10. That's a plethora of recent words-of-the-day ...

Remember when the teacher said, 'Use as many vocabulary words as possible?

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

11. I would encourage this writer to

eschew obsufucation.........:)

[chaska]

18. SPELLING!!! Mr. Dyedinthewoolliberal.

[Shakespeare]

13. Was this written by Ashley Judd?

I swear, that woman tries WAY too hard to convince people she's smart. Somebody must've bought her the word-a-day calendar; just watch an interview with her sometime, and you'll see what I mean. Nearly killed myself laughing when she very seriously threw the word "peripatetic" into a sentence....incorrectly. I was reminded of her faux pretention a week or so ago when she was on the Daily Show. Ugh.

Pssst...Ash, babe...if you're actually smart, you won't have to try so hard to show it.

[jukes]

14. Shakespeare

i wdnt kick her out of bed for pretentiousness, though...

[HornBuckler]

15. Bingo

And Renee Zellweger Is Notorious B I G For Doin' It. It's Such A Turn Off. Then, There Are Those That Are Just Plain Dumb And Don't Even Try To Fool You. :)

[GOPisEvil]

17. Well...to her credit, she did graduate with a 4.0 from the U of Kentucky.

Maybe she got "Verbal Advantage" for Christmas one year. :-)

[Bossy Monkey]

19. I think it may be one of those joke things

but she still should have used jeremiad in a proper, or at least possible, context. If her love life's a jeremiad (= screed, more or less), that might be her entire problem right there.