I am dating one of the most pretentious guys ever

[quote] He pronounces the "r" in "February"

Which one?

I believe George Costanza broke up with a girlfriend for being pretentious.

If he's working in publishing, he'll be driving a bus himself before too long.

The important part is how big his cock is and how good his ass tastes.

Fun and enthusiastic fuck can cover a multitude of sins.

He seems very reasonable to me, and quirky.

The one unforgivable exception, however, is pronouncing the D in Wednesday. (I presume you mean the first D.) That's utterly ridiculous. Suggest to him that he return to the original name, "Wotan's Day," if he must be so preciously precise.

Anyone who pronounces the r in February is okay in my book.

He probably is insecure and overcompensating for his humble upbringing. I think some people like that mellow with time and maturity and some people get worse.

He doesn't exist. A fun and enthusiastic fuck? Are you 80 OP?

No gay guy would date/do a gay guy like that.

R6 It’s not Wotan’s Day; it’s Woden’s Day. Wōden is the Old English name for the Norse god Odin.

Sunday = Sun/Son Day

Monday = Moon Day

Tuesday = Tiws Day (Tíw is the Old English name for the Norse god Týr, who corresponds with Mars)

Thursday = Thor’s Day

Friday = Frigg Day (Norse goddess)

Saturday = Saturn Day

[quote] Friday = Frigg Day (Norse goddess)

Damn Friggin' right!

R 2 youre damn right. OP : when he refers to someone named Sam, does he say SAM-U-ELLE?

He sounds like fun!

Be nice to him, OP. Be supportive. Don't be Cunty McCuntface and come to Data Lounge to dish the guy. He should kick you in your cuntbone. You've earned it.

But give him this video. Tell him that this is how it's done.

Nouveau riche+gay=insufferable cunt

OP, what is your point? Are you counting the days until this guy dumps you?

It will always be a drag knowing that all of your friends despise and mock him. That will get tiresome.

I pronounce the p in raspberry. I’d like to meet your boyfriend when you’re done.

R19 = Carol Channing

I pronounce the first 'r' in secretary rather than say 'secketry', is that ok with you? Not a Nazi are you much OP?

English is not my first language, so I've always pronounced the R in February. I thought that was how it was supposed to be pronounced? Is it supposed to be pronounced "febuary"?

Could your guy have a regional accent? In San Francisco, where I live, lots of people strongly pronounce the T in words like "button", whereas in Sacramento, about two hours away, it's less pronounced. They even pronounce their own city name as "Sacrameno".

And you feel the need to tell is this because....

These type of “I know someone” posts always confuse me.

Don’t you have friends to discuss this with, OP?

R15 oh please. I come on here and dish on my husband the broadway queen. He likes to think ge’s butch because he’s a top. I tell him you can’t love show tunes & be butch

OP, if you think the occasional phonetic pronunciation makes your boyfriend "one of the most pretentious guys ever," you need to spend some more time around these parts.

[quote]I tell him you can’t love show tunes & be butch

Psychological abuse! You should be put down like the mad dog you are.

OP, if he thinks Tuesday is Tooz-day, dump him,.

R27 whatever Sally.

R28, hahahahahhahahahahahha today's Tooz-day.

I associate over-articulation with speech therapy. Poor dear probably had a lisp growing up. The Edith Wharton thing is a hoot. I'd fuck him.

I think the boy just needs a good spanking on his firm little bottom.

r31, or he had a stutter.

The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.

Is his name Moira Rose?

I knew a guy who said Pon-TEE-us Pilot.

Why did he go around talking about Pontius Pilate?

How does he pronounce:

endive

aunt

penchant

OP are you complaining or bragging?

I have tried to pronounce the first d in Wednesday and it's impossible.

This is a COMPLETE EST.

R40 I have been trying to pronounce the R in February since I read this and cannot figure out how. Feb-Ru-Ary? Sounds like RuPauls new Valentines album.

“and he has a good job in publishing”

He’s probably a Grammar Nazi and probably over-pronounces to get you to drop all those extras Ss in your speech.

R22, the guy mispronounces Wednesday, but pronounces February properly.

Fuck you, OP. I grew up with a flat Midwestern accent and I worked like a demon to upgrade my speech so that I would not be tied to that backwater. Your boyfriend is probably doing the same thing. Working on improving himself.

OP, tell us about your accent. Be honest. How awful is it?

OP, does he pronounce the second "t" in "pretentious" as a "t", turning it into four syllables instead of three?

Say "horrible," r44. If the first syllable sounds like that word that means "prostitute," you haven't lost your accent yet.

Anyone who doesn’t sound the first r in February sounds illiterate to me, same as “liberry.” It is a bit of a tongue-twister, though.

Mature = matoor or mahtcher?

[quote] I have tried to pronounce the first d in Wednesday and it's impossible.

Wed-nuhss-day. Was that so hard? It is wrong and weird, though.

Sorry, R45. I pronounce that one "harrible," so that I better blend into my NYC surroundings.

Nice try, though.

Yale isn't what it used to be, but even today's graduates would know not to utter this word: Wed-nuhss-day.

OP he’s not pretentious, he’s educated and articulate.

If you were the same, you would recognize that.

So educated and articulate people mispronounce common words?

Yeah? But is he cut or uncut?

Is he perchance an old-timey gay?

How does he pronounce "button?" Find out. If he pronounces it buttuhn - that's fine. If he empasizes the double t too much, drop him. If he pronounces it "buh-IN" then slap him hard first, prior to dumping him.

Pretentious people need to be taken down.

I’m not American and I always pronounce “tt” as t and not d like Americans.

OP here. Did I mention he has a 13 inch cock?

My husband 20 years ago- You are so interesting, I could listen to you all night.

Today- Shat up an gimme acupa kawfee

R55, I knew a girl in California who said “buddins.”

Califorinians drink melk and write with a pin.

[quote]How does he pronounce "button?" Find out. If he pronounces it buttuhn - that's fine.

Anderson Cooper says "buddin", also "Manhaddin".

Drives me fucking bonkers!

For 13 inches he can have an ass face & talk diarrhea (as the old saying goes)

[quote]he's not prissy

He sounds OK to me. There are much worse quirks to be had.

R31 is spot on. I had years of speech therapy. I am always told I speak,and pronounce words too formal.

I would never call that a flaw, R65. I would love it if more people enunciated better, and I'd love to hear someone like you speak.

I'm amazed OP knows who Edith Wharton is.

[quote] I recently heard a BBC radio announcer pronounce "Wednesday" in a peculiar way. The 'd' wasn't dropped, resulting in something like "Wedinzday" (wɛdnzde).

[quote] I've read some Scottish dialects use this pronunciation. Is it class- or region-based? Something from RP or "broadcaster English"? Also, it doesn't appear that other words containing "dn" are affected (e.g. madness, midnight, etc.), so is this just a phonological anomaly?

Are you bragging or complaining, OP?

At least he’s not stealing money from your wallet to buy crack rock.

I can not stand pretentious.

Ride the ride. See the show. Just remember he is someone who is very concerned about what other people think of him.

You are not good enough for him, PO.

OP, Is this where we say congratulations on finally dating someone?

R67 - He probably didn't until the snob with a passion for over enunciation mentioned the name and he HAD to Google it, like a good bottom (who needs to shut up about his "13 inch" endowed top who will now force him to read Henry James's "Portrait of a Lady").

I once had more respect for the interior designer Thomas Jayne, but then he started dining out on his claim that Ogden Codman and Edith Wharton's "The Decoration of Houses" is "the most important book on decoration ever written."

Wharton is important but overrated on all accounts.

OP, why was a Yale graduate who works in publishing discussing cattle with you?

Just to be a total hosebag cunt like OP, I pop a blood vessel when people pronounce words with a t like a d sound. Fucking hate that! It is pre dick tidd NOT pre dick didd. It is inter prih tay shun NOT inter prih day shun. If anyone talks like that I will hate them FOREVER.

R77 - why not? I am a writer and went to a good school and there is a whole lot I can talk to anyone about the dire state of cattle in the US.

You sound a little high-strung, r78.

R76 - completely agree. VERY overrated but she made quite a name for herself simply due to her life in Paris and the connections she established.

Not one person on this thread has had sex in the last 5 years. Including the OP. Stands to reason this kind of nonsense OCD ancient gay man topic would take off. I thought it was cute for a few posts. Just stupid now. But you'll go on and on. For hundreds of tangential posts. About pronunciation, accents, regional differences, Edith Wharton, large cocks, spelling and grammar, real relationship advice for a made up dilemma.

One of the hallmarks of the mental illness theory for male homesexuality was this constant need to categorize everything, each and everything - down to the point of no meaning. It's a compulsive trait that removes people from the intimacies of life and healthy connection with others. There's no superiority involved. Though you can't convince the 75 year old white gay Datalounge contestants. Stupid and barren, dry as dust and not even funny. Obsessed with being correct about the most antiquated and unimportant matters. Gay will be reinstated in the DSM VIII - just as surely as alcoholism, shopping & gambling addictions will be removed.

Wensday. That's how you say it. Done

In general ALL Americans sound stooooooooopid with their Americanisms. British English is the only way to say shit.

r82 go off hunny! yassss

[quote] One of the hallmarks of the mental illness theory for male homesexuality was this constant need to categorize everything

You mean like "not one person on this thread has had sex for the last five years"?

You realize R82 that you've just done the very thing you accuse DLers of doing.

Amusing though your characterization might be.

Hmmm. Silence from OP. He and Pretentious Twat have broken up. One night stand?

I still can't get over OP thinking February is pronounced Feb--ooo-- ary.

r57 is not me.

If he is pretentious, op, why is he dating you? What so great about you?

Speech therapy doesn’t explain calling Central Park “the Central Park” after Edith Wharton. This suggests his over enunciation is due to pretension rather than the hardship of overcoming a lisp.

Other than speaking the way he does, you say he is a great guy, I don't see the problem.

[quote]Other than speaking the way he does, you say he is a great guy, I don't see the problem.

nope, after the thrill of new dick/ass is gone OP will back here complaining how his boyfriend is a snob and how much he wants to leave his ass

Yes OP is dickmatized. It’s like how a rich man is “eccentric” until his money is gone and then he’s just crazy.

I for one love pretentious Yale guys, especially those who are having fun with their affectations.

Does he refer to the Hudson as the North River?

Does he know the rules for using "an" before a word that begins with an aspirated H? (Check an old edition of Fowler).

Was he in the Lizzie Club at school? (From the sound of him, either he actually was or was dying to be a member).

Does he dress right or left in his J. Press gabardine trousers?

R82 - incorrect sir. I last had sex in February with a Dutch hottie I met at a gay friendly cafe. He was one hell of a power bottom, alas he went home with the outbreak of the virus.

I am missing prime hookup season here because summer is when the young stewards and pilots from the low cost airlines are all over the city's gay scene and fall is when the university students come and are ripe for a top. This virus has fucked my sex life epically.

An ounce of pretension is worth a pound of manure.

Shut up and drink your juice, Shelby.

I think calling it "The Central Park" because it makes him smile is fine. Life is not so serious. Do what you want

Pretentious piffler and a chippy oik!

Yes, mere pronunciation with silly affectations and pride in exceeding familial educational barriers is terrible, OP.

But of course you're a liar and a drone, aren't you?

Plus the order in which you list his positive attributes certainly tell us all we need to know about you.

Yes, mere pronunciation with silly affectations and pride in exceeding familial educational barriers is terrible, OP.

But of course you're a liar and a drone, aren't you?

Plus the order in which you list his positive attributes certainly tell us all we need to know about you.

And "the Central Park" was the usual term for the newish park.

But it's more likely that the OP himself refers to it as "the Central Park" in the same way he adds that little article when he announces he's heading to "the baths," "the bushes" and "the glory hole."

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

And "the Central Park" was the usual term for the newish park.

But it's more likely that the OP himself refers to it as "the Central Park" in the same way he adds that little article when he announces he's heading to "the baths," "the bushes" and "the glory hole."

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Does he pronounce the r in sayonara?

You’ll soon know.