Pretentious Phrases instead of Plain English words -Piece de resistance

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Just thought I would get this one of my chest.
Irritating People that use pretentious foreign words Phrases instead of basic plain English-
"Piece de resistance " instead of saying Masterpiece or the best available.
and that other one usually said by TV presenters and journalists:
"Raison detre " instead of reason for existing

Yes that's the one.

au fait

Surely you mean 'oh fay' (well, that's what one of my colleagues puts )

Ç

Or even a cedilla!

On my phone you just hold down the c button.

Google says

To type a lowercase character by using a key combination that includes the SHIFT key, hold down the CTRL+SHIFT+symbol keys simultaneously, and then release them before you type the letter. For example, to insert the euro currency symbol , press 20AC, and then hold down the ALT key and press X.

Tinkerbell Suzy Dent talked about "it gets my goat" earlier this week on Countdown. Basically, no-one really know the origin of this one! She went on about goats being used to calm down racehorses in the stalls before the gun, but I was only half listening and I don't really see how that relates...

How do you write a cedilla as in soupÇon.... I wrote it in Word, did 'insert' 'symbol' and searched for the cedilla, though I could only find the upper case version! (I'm on a laptop)

@Twitterqueen, I googled it, and found the explanation that @passmethecrisps posted, but it didn't work, so I went into Word, did ALT0199 and that worked.

I am on one of these old fashioned PC things! If I was on my iphone I'm pretty sure I could hold down "c" and it would give me every option.

@Twitterqueen1 - YABU for not fully giving Suzy Dent your attention!

Just realised one phrase that no one has complained about - a Mumsnet favourite - "Cherchez la femme!"

It definitely has more of a ring to it than "Look for the other woman".

I don't find them pretentious as they all add to having a rich vocabulary and it would be a boring world if we weren't allowed to use words or expressions which, albeit in a foreign language, describe exactly what we want to express.

I totally agree with PP about myself and yourself etc and I don't know if anyone has noticed but people seem to have either never been taught or have forgotten the correct use of tenses. These are all from recent MN threads:

She done the shopping
She seen the article
I've woke up
I done it once
Has took DC out
I done all the work

What the hell is going on?

Oh I must admit I find people pronouncing choritzo as choreetho to be a bit poncy

Iklboo- and persay....

Maybe the OP had got confused when reading Mitford, and assumes that as it's French, it is non-U?

The reason the English language is the largest in the world is precisely because we appropriate words all the time. It adapts constantly, new words are introduced every year. Look at the problems French has- they insist on rigid adherence to rules amd uphold frenchness above all...so young people are abandoning it, as their lives are lived more and more online.
Such a shame.

Mange tout, Rodney, mange tout! Always repeated to make it sounds more impressive.😂

Per se? Don’t you mean Percy?

PLEASE NO!!!
Not this stuff again:

She done the shopping
She seen the article
I've woke up
I done it once
Has took DC out
I done all the work

Tinkerbell You are right. I am very sorry and .

Silvery don't go there. Those in charge don't like it and we'll get banished or deleted.....

So according to Mumsnet we're not allowed any forrin words in our vocabulary, we're not allowed super and we're not allowed uni. Swearing is also moaned about fairly regularly.

Maybe MNHQ could do a handy list of words we are allowed to say. Perhaps alongside a grammar and spelling guide and all the cringy, hackneyed phrases often trotted out by posters trying to be cool.

I've woke up - maybe you're just not woke enough @SilverySurfer

Talking of random phrases and words I dislike....

I'm so woke
I can't even...
Re-imagine

I see It stunk on threads about lack of hygiene😂.

Should, of course, be It stank.

Totes.

Ah but nicenightforamooncup is that "super" meaning "great" or "super" meaning "very" - as in, "I was super excited to meet your guinea pig!"

Or even *marvellousnightforamooncup"

Must learn to read properly....

@RoseWhiteTips obvs

Maybe people should just chillax, no?

forrin words & phrases are OK to talk about (AFAIK), but the grammar police are not popular (unless they're in Pedants' Corner) as it's considered bad form to be critical of how people talk/write in English.

Totes, dude. I mean, French words and shiz are just soooo on fleek, amirite