Pretentious
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And I know this sounds like the most
pretentious
TED Talk statement ever.
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And I thought, well, that's got a
pretentious
name, especially since the whole system ran on his computer in his office.
But then there was another wonderfully
pretentious
article that came out in The New Republic, so pretentious, by Liel Leibovitz, and it said, "MoMA has mistaken video games for art."
A bit of a
pretentious
term, it's a little tongue-in-cheek, but it's something I've thought about for a long time, and I'd like to share what I think I've figured out.
In his essay, "Politics and the English Language," he described techniques like using
pretentious
words to project authority, or making atrocities sound acceptable by burying them in euphemisms and convoluted sentence structures.
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