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Originally Posted by Lalwendë
pretentious pronunciations of foreign language words and phrases. I mean those delivered with a particularly heavy, comedic French/Italian/Spanish 'accent' which the speaker so clearly belives is the correct and cultured thing to do.
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*chuckles* I second this. A couple nights ago I ate at
The Olive Garden, for those who don't know it's a
"fancy" ( envision the hand signal) italian restaurant where the the menu headings and items are in Italian. It had me stumped because I wasn't sure if I should say 'Ravioli
de Portobello' or just Portobello Ravioli. Maybe I should have gone to my southern hick roots and said, 'heeyuckheeyuck i wants sum fungus stuffed pillows, pulees!'
And the sitcom,
Seinfeld , where George's girlfriend who said paper mache as papia mashia.