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Too few names go undropped, the prime spot going to Roland Barthes.The book is sprinkled with enough pretentious jargon, factual error and illogicality to infuriate and baffle the unwary.
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"Yesterday's O Fiverão reminded me of the EastEnders episode with just Dot and Ethel, or the Family Guy episode with Brian and Stewie locked in the bank vault: pretentious enough to be different, eloquent enough to be artsy, not too clever so we did not all realise where it was going and we could all feel smug.
These kids were just pretentious enough to fall for the most convoluted commie bullshit, and they were rich and spoiled enough to carry it out.
"The space is already pretentious enough as it is".
"I'm not pretentious enough to think I can change the nature of the British people," Van Commenee says.
Even Alt-J isn't pretentious enough to rebuff such enthusiasm, though its stage persona still isn't quite suited to it.
If my programmatic convictions were not pretentious enough, I decided that this "other" literature would be the backdrop against which I would experience the city.
The outfit Gemma: If her coat-cape wasn't pretentious enough, Ms Jones has gone and worn shorts on a chilly Parisian day.
"OK, I know I said I don't believe in limits but I would honestly never have been pretentious enough to come out and say I could achieve that!" he admits.
It's a bore and a half, but I'm just pretentious enough that I feel like "I got the Arvo Pärt discography... I've got to listen to it".
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com