yr affectations, list them

At some point I started saying "soda" instead of "pop" and more recently "Coca-Cola" instead of "Coke", both of which run contrary to what myself or anyone I knew said growing up. I also have apparently nurtured a Southern accent that comes and goes depending on my mood, even though I have never even been to the South.

i almost never use slang or curse (irl, i mean).

not sure those are really "affectations," but there they are.

I have so so many of these but can't think of one. Like just weird gestures I make or things I say.

I also have apparently nurtured a Southern accent that comes and goes depending on my mood, even though I have never even been to the South.

Totally do this!

Also: not having a TV.

Used to be: not having a cellphone.

my accent(s) is or are a mess. mom is tennessee/mexico heritage. dad had residual boston in him. i skew heavy on beach casual from growin up. most of my exes from texas (picked a lot of that up), a few from france (kinda fucked with my inflection). shit changes by the hour.

my accent/intonation/cadence totally changes depending on who I'm talking to :\

If not watching TV counts then, that. Tho I dont do it on purpose.

Oh and spelling "though" as "tho".

Saying "as it were" all the damn time.

posting in all lowercase with minimal punctuation

Writing my numeral "7"s with a horizontal bar, eurostyle.

smiling

yeah dyao, likewise

swishin around like i own the place

refusing to wear shorts in the summertime (picked this up from my roommate in college)

my accent/intonation/cadence totally changes depending on who I'm talking to :\

― ♹♹ (dyao), Sunday, June 13, 2010 6:22 PM (6 minutes ago)

we had a really interesting discussion about this on the No Boys Allowed in Room thread a while back - this phenomenon (i do this too - a lot) has to do with what is referred to as "language ego"

well I think it's obvious why I didn't read it then!

but yeah I find myself imitating the voice of whoever I'm talking to

not sure this qualifies as an "affectation" either, but people have been making comments about the way I walk for such a long time, now I'm pretty self conscious about it. Especially in situations where I'm at work and walking down a long hallway by myself and there are a group of people I know walking behind me. I guess the affectation part of it is that now when I'm walking in situations like that I find myself trying to walk "normally" and probably looking even more foolish than I usually do

http://www.ayo4theo.com/stuff/pics/haters-gonna-hate.gif

haha, I wish I was that dude

well I think it's obvious why I didn't read it then!

but yeah I find myself imitating the voice of whoever I'm talking to

― ♹♹ (dyao), Sunday, June 13, 2010 6:32 PM (43 seconds ago)

why is that obvious? plenty of boys read that thread! I read the gay thread, but don't post on it.

(actually I wish I was this dude)

http://i50.tinypic.com/xdxje0.gif

xp haha well it's NO BOYS ALLOWED I would feel kind of voyeurish if I read it. but if you could link to the relevant discussion that would be pretty awesome

my mom always criticizes me for walking with my feet splayed outwards, like a duck. so I try to keep my feet parallel when I walk.

unfortunately two decades of nagging about my posture hasn't really changed the fact that I slouch a lot

why would you feel voyeurish about reading a thread that people are posting to, knowing it's on a public board that members of any gender can read?

I used to work with a guy who worked on the passport helpline, which as you can imagine gets people of all accents calling in. He'd unconciously imitate them so heavily it sounded like he was taking the piss, to the point he occasionally got complaints.

paying special attention to threads with interesting titles that have typos in them

I dunno sarahel, just kind of sticks in my craw

acting patient waiting for max to come to this thread

language ego discussion starts here, i think

when I go up north sometimes people will say I have a southern accent which I don't believe is true. it more of a laid back, regional tone of voice that I use sometimes that has no affiliation with the typical southern accents

smiling and waving enthusiastically, and often with both hands, when i see someone i know.

asking captain lorax how often he "goes up north," can't help it it's a thing i do

pretending i know/care more about _______ than i actually do (where ________ is pretty much everything)

otoh, *learning* lots of stuff so i can know more about ______ than most other people

not sure this qualifies as an "affectation" either, but people have been making comments about the way I walk for such a long time, now I'm pretty self conscious about it. Especially in situations where I'm at work and walking down a long hallway by myself and there are a group of people I know walking behind me. I guess the affectation part of it is that now when I'm walking in situations like that I find myself trying to walk "normally" and probably looking even more foolish than I usually do

― fuck it, we're going to Olive Garden® (Z S), Sunday, June 13, 2010 9:32 PM (1 hour ago)

ugh, this. some kid in high school once told me that I don't bob my head when I walk (apparently most people do this?). it stuck with me for some reason, and every once in a while I remind myself to loosen my neck up a little as I'm walking. I don't usually get comments about the way I walk, for what it's worth.

pretending to know nothing whatsoever about a subject, because I'm afraid if I speak up about it, I'll reveal some fatal gap in my knowledge, and smarter people will get all "the emperor has new clothes" on me.

(ha! the emperor has no clothes, I mean)

some kid in high school once told me that I don't bob my head when I walk (apparently most people do this?).

Oh man, I've got the opposite thing going on, apparently. Lots of bob. But since I've never seen footage of myself walking, at least not recent footage from 1997-present, I've no idea what is actually going on there.

You should challenge people on the street to a 'balance a book on your head' contest, you'd kill!

there's a good subthread in here about being that kid who raises (or doesn't raise) his hand in class. i've always wondered about students who knew the answer but never raised their hand.

I have so many affectations that it would be impossible at this point to tease them out of what most people would call my personality. What is a personality other than a list of insecurities and things you're especially confident about, expressed in your outward behavior? Who cares if you faked a lot of it? How long before an affectation becomes a legitimate part of who you are?

(xpost) me, i was never a horshack, but i would raise my hand a lot when no one else knew the answer, even though the other students and maybe the teacher too probably hated me for it. i would get the "can we hear from someone *besides* jody?" thing fairly often.

My handwriting is affectation in its entirety, incorporating bits of other people's handwriting that I though looked neat.

I always figured that students who never raised their hands (but obviously knew the answer) had just realized early on that knowing the answer if very rarely cool.

I always raised my hand like it was a competition or something, which is probably why I ended up inventing a new way to eat Doritos® on prom night.

pretending i know/care more about _______ than i actually do (where ________ is pretty much everything)

― aix-en-pains (get bent), Monday, June 14, 2010 11:28 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

I totally do this (was talking out of my ass about Y-3 the other day)

gawd, who gives a shit what's "cool"? a lot of ppl, i know. sigh.

It's not just a matter of "cool" -- I affect being uncool when I'm around the uncool as well. It's about being accepted, and everyone does it.

thanks to being a know-it-all, had a (probably imagined, only on my side) cold war with a girl last year after she said I was "self-righteous" all the time

(xpost) me, i was never a horshack, but i would raise my hand a lot when no one else knew the answer, even though the other students and maybe the teacher too probably hated me for it. i would get the "can we hear from someone *besides* jody?" thing fairly often.

― aix-en-pains (get bent), Sunday, June 13, 2010 8:47 PM Bookmark

Exact same here.

Me too.

NERRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDSSSSSSSS

Yeah, same. I remember that the teacher would sometimes simplify my answers. "Does anyone know what opaque' means?" Me: "It means that light doesn't pass through it." Him: "It means YOU CAN'T SEE THROUGH IT!"

every time i pull up to an intersection i pretend i don't care about what the people in the cars next to me are or aren't doing when in fact i really really do care but don't allow myself to look and see

Sometimes I pretend to know something so that it doesn't hold up conversation by having something explained...I figure I'll work it out as I go or look it up later. That and people sometimes assume I'm smarter than i am. Me not smrt. Me just play one on tv.

Sometimes I pretend to know something so that it doesn't hold up conversation by having something explained

This has pretty much been my strategy at work and it seems to be working disturbingly well so far

Sometimes I pretend to know something so that it doesn't hold up conversation by having something explained

I know someone who does the exact opposite - will ask questions about everything to keep the conversation going

I can hardly get through the workday without a vague lie regarding my sports knowledge.

"How about those Blackhawks!" "Um... YEAH! FUCK YEAH! WOO!" (Secretly: what sport is this again?)

My knowledge of sports has not grown at all since being in Chicago, but my affectations regarding them have increased tenfold.

i walk on the tips of my toes and bounce up and down when i walk, something i've always done and don't ever notice and can barely even keep myself from doing. everyone always notice it and friends of mine have identified me from like, a block away based solely on the way i walk. i used to be a bit embarassed about it, but i've kind of consolidated it into a greater conscious affectation of seeming happy about life while doing day-to-day boring shit.

I've developed a pretty unhealthy soccer affectation at work. Mainly bc no one I work with knows much, so I can be the big fish. But if they ever pinned me down on the rules I'd be hosed.

i also remember a phase in my early youth when i made the conscious decision to stop answering questions in class and being a know-it-all because i wanted to start talking to girls. i still don't know if i've entirely shed that, or if it's morphed into something different. i got some considerable pleasure and feeling of coolness out of being super disorganized and being often late/hungover for classes but sporadically revealing that i got a 95 in my cal 2 class, or being on-point and answering a question the professor put to the class that no one knew (or bothered to say) the answer to.

I have this vision of samosa tiptoeing through the tulips now

tbh my strut bears considerable resemblance to duder in hatersgonnahate.gif

I am generally ready, willing, and able to throw any word or phrase that strikes my fancy into my conversation, whether or not it leads to the complete bafflement of my listeners. I am as bad about my vocabulary as others are about their pets.

emitting a quiet but high-pitched 'meow' in lulls in conversation, or while someone is addressing me at length.

I am generally ready, willing, and able to throw any word or phrase that strikes my fancy into my conversation, whether or not it leads to the complete bafflement of my listeners.

Well well well. Looks like we got ourselves a reader.

I make no bones about it. I Love Books.

xpost

loooooooool

I always figured that students who never raised their hands (but obviously knew the answer) had just realized early on that knowing the answer if very rarely cool.

It was the absolute opposite for me. I never raised my hand because I was completely, irrationally terrified of being noticed in any way after years of getting picked on for having the sheer gall to like books and read for fun. That probably has a lot to do with my only major affectation- I made an effort from an early age to avoid developing a southern accent. And now I get people asking me if I'm Canadian; I might have overdone it a little bit.

i carry around an uzi even though i've never fired it

i got tired of the scimitar.

ugh - i was worse than the chronic handraisers, when i was younger - i thought hand raising was a contrived affectation, and the point of the whole thing was to acquire knowledge as efficiently as possible, so i'd shout out the answer before the teacher even had a chance to pick on someone who had raised their hand.

ilxtropes.org

I used to get up and walk around the classroom for reasons that no one could account for, least of all myself. But that's another thread. Poor impulse control is a thing to be reckoned with.

Not purposefully, but I am generally ready, willing, and able to misspell or misuse any word or phrase on an internet forum because I don't give a damn (and my blackberry doesn't do spell check). Also I get some amusement out of imagining a grammar/spelling nazi/tightwad rip their pants

I am willing to admit I don't know what affectations means

is being a good tipper an affectation? or just a sign of empathy?

i'm talking 20-25%, not like conspicuously dropping a c-note on the table

When I started lolcollege I had my first exposure to Yankees and I made fun of them for saying "you guys" instead of "y'all" and "soda" instead of "coke". Now I probably say "you guys" about a third of the time just naturally and I never talk about coke b/c who drinks cold drinks when you can buy beer?

hey fetchboy, what kind of coke do you want?

we have coke, coke, and coke.

I'll take sprite, please.

For some reason I've started pronouncing the words "room" and "broom" closer to "rum" and "brum" than "roum" and "broum". Why?

Kiwis told me my accent was "more southern" than my friends, and then my friends agreed. (?)

During idle moments while standing I unconsciously cross my right leg over my left (evidence in wdylls thread).

I've started saying 'cola', too!

i think i saw you at atp...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4616348915_7b10bb80f9.jpg

Is he in the middle of a dance move?

held that pose for the whole camera obscura set iirc

Just a little too dorky to submit to http://hipstershavetopee.tumblr.com/

totally misread that link.

i didn't see the bottom part of his baseball cap and thought he was wearing a yarmulke!

pretending to know nothing whatsoever about a subject, because I'm afraid if I speak up about it, I'll reveal some fatal gap in my knowledge, and smarter people will get all "the emperor has new clothes" on me.

― if you see her, say ayo (unregistered),

i do this (not on the internet though haha) but i dunno if it's an affectation, more like impostor syndrome

acting patient waiting for max to come to this thread

― harbl, Sunday, June 13, 2010 9:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

!!

gonna blow yalls mind here

u ready

let me know when ur ready

making people beg for me to post

― max, Monday, June 14, 2010 5:20 AM (26 seconds ago)

Giving 'normal people' pop-cultural references or long words that are just one shade too obscure for that particular person to get, requiring convoluted explanation.

Craving animal products after extended contact with vegetarians/vegans who soapbox.

i say intelligentsia with a hard g

namely?

when i was about 12 i thought 'affectation' was a great word and used it far too often, affectatiously but not 'ironically' iirc

when I get a text/e-mail I will often intentionally wait at least a few hours before responding, just to give the impression that I am a cool dude who is too busy doing cool things to keep up to date with his electronic life. this often results in me forgetting to respond to things completely and ruining whatever good graces I may have built up.

I think the cause can be traced back to spending way too much time on AIM/chat programs when I was younger, which gave rise to a nagging fear that everybody thought I was a NERD for spending all my time online (little did I know I was just ahead of the curve)

i say intelligentsia with a hard g

while I say it with a hard h

I never eat Muscatel grapes.

not sure this qualifies as an "affectation" either, but people have been making comments about the way I walk for such a long time, now I'm pretty self conscious about it. Especially in situations where I'm at work and walking down a long hallway by myself and there are a group of people I know walking behind me. I guess the affectation part of it is that now when I'm walking in situations like that I find myself trying to walk "normally" and probably looking even more foolish than I usually do

― fuck it, we're going to Olive Garden® (Z S), Monday, 14 June 2010 01:32 (11 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I am feeling a looooot of this post but am kind of conflicted as my problem is I walk really ridiculously briskly, like a speedwalker. I keep telling myself I'm going to train myself not to do this cos it's antisocial and I probably look like an idiot (strangers comment on it when I pass them ffs) but, uh, getting from A to B is useful

unlike most irish people i pronounce my tee haitches. ive actually had the piss taken out of me for this.

shockin

dat's no carry on at all so tisnt

savagery

turty tree and a turd

there's something very west brit about the 'th' sound, though. it's not patriotic somehow. does it appear anywhere as gaeilge, i wonder?

i pronounce the th but im from galway and we can talk properly here

tbomb right dere ^^

i used to have this terrible affectation of scuffing my shoes while walking

iirc most ppl i've known from like sligo have pronounced 'th' but not as strongly as wd be found in rp (or w/e it is now nobody rly speaks rp)

wanna make a mention of big HOOS and his 'going to school with slogans written on a whiteboard around my neck' affectation. pour one out.

qu'est que c'est 'rp' nuair a bhíonn sé ina chonaí?

"th" isn't a very popular sound. I don't know of any languages which have either "th" sound apart from English, Icelandic and Welsh (obv I don't know that many languages so it could still exist in plenty). Even Faroese, which is Icelandic's closest cousin and keeps the letters used in Icelandic and Old English to represent them, doesn't actually pronounce them.

(Realisation just before hitting Submit that of course there is European Spanish - sorry, think there was a thread on what you should actually call this, all I remember is that there wasn't really a preferred option though - turning soft "c" into it, which apparently started out as an affectation which people thought sounded classy, and it stuck.)

Pretty sure I do lots of stuff that people think is weird but most of it I haven't noticed and the ones I do notice make me think "damn, I need to stop doing that", so not really affectations as much as bad personal habits I'd hate if I knew about them.

It wasn't that it sounded classy, it was that the Spanish king had a lisp and the courtiers imitated it so eventually the non-lispers had a problem fitting in, not the King.

^^i think this is one of those "interesting facts that is also false"

I say 'hammer' like I'm british for some reason...never noticed it until it was pointed out recently

from the horror movies, perhaps?

it's 'ammer time

I used "preemptory" and "numinous" in conversation yesterday.

xp is this like 'hammah' vs 'hay-merrrr' or what?

'hammah' (it's mostly the first a, I sorta pronounce the r?)

pronouncing two-syllable words correctly isn't an affectation imo

when I get a text/e-mail I will often intentionally wait at least a few hours before responding, just to give the impression that I am a cool dude who is too busy doing cool things to keep up to date with his electronic life. this often results in me forgetting to respond to things completely and ruining whatever good graces I may have built up.

I think the cause can be traced back to spending way too much time on AIM/chat programs when I was younger, which gave rise to a nagging fear that everybody thought I was a NERD for spending all my time online (little did I know I was just ahead of the curve)

― ♹♹ (dyao), Monday, 14 June 2010 13:12 (1 hour ago)

this is, also, me.

it's not the normal 'a' for someone speaking w/ my beautiful california accent

xp

i keep meaning to contribute to this thread but contemplating these leads to bouts of intense self-loathing tbh

the first time i saw the movie mean girls, i realized that i speak exactly like the mean girls.

Do you ever meet someone or become acquainted with someone who has very distinct habits - like ways of walking and talking, and you kind of unintentionally mimic them? My friend Lauren has a very distinctive walk that is almost a waddle and I find myself walking like her at times. Or my friend Matt has a very distinct east-coast accent and I find myself talking like him. Apparently I say, "Hold the phone!" a lot. Which is something that I don't really appreciate.

Also, I seem to almost intentionally keep myself naive about pop cultural goings-on and sometimes get all braggy about it, which is just dumb. Why should it be cool that I've never heard Vampire Weekend? It's the snobby hipster in me coming out.

i go all cork when i talk to my friend mary

My never-having-seen-any-touchstone-of-popular-culture-films thing has definitely become an actual thing now. And yeah, I'm really bad at mimicking particular vocal tics/accents/affectations of my friends.

bad AT or bad ABOUT?

both!

(my main affectation = an almost pathological need/desire for precision when communicating)

I turn into a spelling nerd at the most inconvenient times.

i've gradually found myself saying "y'all" a lot over the past couple months

Oh, I affect poor grammar and that when I'm posting on the internet, and then I worry that people might actually think I genuinely am really bad at grammar rather than just affecting a bastardised twatty version of internetspeak. But not enough to stop doing it.

Do you ever meet someone or become acquainted with someone who has very distinct habits - like ways of walking and talking, and you kind of unintentionally mimic them?

sometimes. and sometimes I mimic a speaker's accent and disposition after watching a tv show or movie

so did no one want me to blow their minds or

not quite ready yet, think it'll have to be after lunch

k well ill bookmark the thread

i use bad grammar because it helps me express my thoughts faster and because it makes grammar snobs mad

i think the only affectations i have involve being an irl troll

i had huge verbal quirk/accent osmosis after watching the wire.

I'm not a snob about grammar in casual social situations/with people who are otherwise intelligent but when I'm feeling underemployed, I hate getting any official communication that is badly written by idiots, because I feel that the correspondent is basically being paid to fart into an office chair for 40 hours.

"th" isn't a very popular sound. I don't know of any languages which have either "th" sound apart from English, Icelandic and Welsh (obv I don't know that many languages so it could still exist in plenty). Even Faroese, which is Icelandic's closest cousin and keeps the letters used in Icelandic and Old English to represent them, doesn't actually pronounce them.

i had huge verbal quirk/accent osmosis after watching the wire.

― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Monday, June 14, 2010 11:40 AM (2 hours ago)

i was very self-conscious about not doing this in front of people, because i am white .... btw

Three! Interesting. Should read the Arabic phrasebook on my own bookshelves, except I don't think a Berlitz phrasebook is going to teach me the finer subtleties of pronunciation. (xpost)

I've just remembered that I like to say various Northern Irishisms I can't claim to have picked up off my Northern Irish boyfriend as he hates them. "Thon" is pretty fun to say, which is surely why it has outlasted its southern counterpart "yon", and makes a pleasing random/emphatic substitution for the definite article. "Are you away?" "Ah sure we're away next door, thon band is shite so it is"

(except I have too much of that "language ego" thing mentioned upthread to do a full sentence out loud - pretty bad at pronouncing foreign languages too, even when I can hear what the accent should sound like I just can't do it. Thanks, linguistic psychologists, for finding a deficiency I already feel bad about and then declaring it is because I have a massive ego and love the sound of my normal voice too much! Too bad that actually I hate speaking even in my native language+accent because sounds fall out in the wrong order and embarrassing me)

See, it even happens in typing too. Damn those verb conjugations.

I think "hating madonna" counts as my affectation, as a gay dude

not folding my arms at shows, though if the band(s) suck, I don't make much of an effort to not do this

It wasn't that it sounded classy, it was that the Spanish king had a lisp and the courtiers imitated it so eventually the non-lispers had a problem fitting in, not the King.

― WHEN CROWS GO BAD (suzy), Monday, June 14, 2010 7:17 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

This is one of the most ridic widespread urban legends that intelligent people actually believe. It's not even a true lisp; they just diferentiate between the s (which is pronounced more or less as in Latin America, or in English for that matter) and the z/ soft c ("th")

tend to walk with a limp around the office

LOLLLLLL but this misinfo is even peddled by the Spanish. xpost

i walk like a pregnant lady sometimes because i think the way they walk is cool

one of my former bosses was from north carolina and said "might could" sometimes which i LOVED and considered affecting but i thought i couldn't pull it off.

spoke really properly as a small-child. Affected a more working-class accent and vocabulary while at school, so as not to be bullied, and it has stuck. Not really sure if it counts as affectation any longer.

o ya, at one point in my early childhood I decided to shun my working class roots and speak real proper like. It mostly stuck, although now I'm always conscious of either not pronouncing my Ts distinctly enough (when speaking to the posh and the foreign) or pronouncing them too distinctly (when speaking to my family and other working class Scots).

I still like to say "pert near" and "fixin' to _____" thanks to my southern/midwestern upbringing.

I used to get up and walk around the classroom for reasons that no one could account for, least of all myself.

that's adorable!

I used to do that too!!!! In fifth grade I straight up left the classroom sometimes and the teacher never said a word. I think because she could teach better when I wasn't in the room.

one of my former bosses was from north carolina and said "might could" sometimes which i LOVED and considered affecting but i thought i couldn't pull it off

dammit, I do this. Maybe I don't have any affectations that somebody else hasn't already affected!

I say "techni-technically" instead of "technically".

Totally had a 6th grade class where I couldn't stay in my chair! Teacher never said a word to me about it during class, not one, but then called my parents after it persisted. :(

Posting on ILX/ILM the word "G-D" (or "gawdawful" as the case may be) instead of, uh, "G0D" even tho I'm basically an atheist. Additionally, whenever I have occasion to use that G-word in a post, I'll usually include a gratuitous "fuck" or "fucking" in the same post, just to puncture any perceived piousness.

Since moving to UK I've had the Canadian pronunciation of words ending in '-out' shamed out of me, mostly.
It slips out the Canadian way sometimes but I try very hard to pronounce it neutrally, esp around other Canadians. I still pronounce most other things in a Canadian-ish sort of way, though my sentence intonation is definitely more British-ish these days.

I watched a videotape of myself posing for a portrait a friend is doing of me at 8X speed and noticed I rub the two bones in my neck. A lot.

I also respond to statements with a short "Ah." a lot. Probably from reading Donald Richie/watching Ozu movies.

euro 7's forever.

eh you have two bones in your neck? like a zulu frankenstein or something?

I like to say "lou-is voo-it-ton" to affect a sort of "I don't even own a TV!" type thing

normally people sort of pronounce "T"s like "D"s. "water"for example comes out sounding more like "wader". and i've always pronounced "at all" more like "ad-all", but a good friend has always said "at-all" with a very precise "T". and now he's got me doing it; i'm powerless to fight it.

You are fighting against Grimm's Law, Thermo. Give in.

when speaking to others, i often begin/end sentences with "i don't know" as a way to preempt any negative response.

i looked up Grimm's Law and my head exploded.

hobbes, my mother's 'ya know, I don't know nothin'...' has that beat. SHUDDER.

i pronounce french things which in english people pronounce differently -e.g. absinthe which i pronounce ab-sant- in what i assume is the correct french pronounciation; despite being completely unfamiliar with the french language.

http://www.forvo.com/word/absinthe/

more like "ab-sat"

the "a" is sufficiently nasalized to spell it ab-sant imo

i insist on pronouncing louis like lewis

ab-sant is pretty close.

How do you pronounce 'ecureuil' then, jim?

mookieproof, what about louis vuitton?

I guess it's a genuine affectation of mine to try to pronounce proper names as they would be in their language - it's a respect thing for me, I guess and I'm fairly competent mimic so I can usually do it, though some people or places get their weird nicknames in my personal lexicon. Paris, for example, I very often call 'Parigi' for some obscure reason I don't remember.

i've never had to pronounce louis vuitton tbh

xp do u say bruxelles or brussel?

luy v'ton as clipse say

I rarely make reference to the Belgian capital so I'd imagine the English way, especially becomes of Brussels Sprouts.

was just jivin

Paris, for example, I very often call 'Parigi' for some obscure reason I don't remember.

― If the US had a dictator we'd call him coach (Michael White), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:22 (16 minutes ago)

there's an early bertolucci plot in there somewhere

i insist on pronouncing louis like lewis

― mookieproof, Tuesday, June 15, 2010 2:50 PM (1 hour ago)

Giving 'normal people' pop-cultural references or long words that are just one shade too obscure for that particular person to get, requiring convoluted explanation.

― WHEN CROWS GO BAD (suzy), Monday, 14 June 2010 13:38 (2 days ago) Bookmark

This is the affectation I most hate in myself. Btw, homosexual II, I also know a waddling Lauren though would never think to imitate the walk, except to poke fun.

I was in the wedding of my high school best friend and hung out with so many people who I hadn't seen in 7-15 years. Three different people said to me, "I hope you're doing ok being in the wedding party and being photographed because I know how much you hate it." I asked my friend about it, and she laughed, and said, "You were very stubborn and grouchy if anyone tried to photograph you, like you acted as strongly about it as 'don't tickle me.*'" I definitely remembered going through a phase of scowling in photos but forgot this particular angsty affectation had ever been cultivated.

*this is still a legit thing and not an affectation; I hate being tickled to the point if I have a dream about it happening it ruins the next day for me

I say "robot" like "robut"

are regional pronunciations really an affectation?
I've spent a lot of my life being the affectation master. I'm really quite the phony.
Probably the dumbest one would be from THE SAME AGE (~14) where I gave myself a little scar on my wrist – with an exacto knife – during art class – so it would look like I attempted suicide. Though it's far too tiny and wan to look like a real suicide attempt. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Fortunately it's on my left arm and I'm a watch wearer.

my cock is kind of dented

Others:
– From ages 10-12 I built my identity around wearing a Blossom hat, or some kind of big wacky hat, all the fucking time. When I moved to a new town in 7th grade where they wouldn't let you wear a hat to school, I cried.
– Carried a lunch box "purse" with wacky toys in it so I could show people the wacky toys instead of actually having to talk to them like a human being (~15-17)
– Pretended to go into catatonic trances in the hopes this one guy I adored would touch me to revive me! This one worked and we dated three years, what a foundation for a relationship. He had his own set of bullshit affectations, including wearing a phone cord as a wallet chain and claiming to be colorblind in only one eye. (~16)

swishin around like i own the place

― plax (ico), Sunday, 13 June 2010 21:25 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:-)

Being a weird kid is kind of amazing in retrospect. I wore a fedora for a while there. Oof.

Now, as I just noticed today, my biggest one (though I don't do it on purpose) is getting all pseudo-academic about everyday things. "I find fall jackets are the easiest to lose of all jackets"

"I find fall jackets are the easiest to lose of all jackets"

might be the best affectation on this entire thread

I write dates European style (e.g. 29 Jun 2012)

abbott's blossom hat reminds me of the time i wore a sears painters' hat like every day for a period of about two months in 10th grade

I mean, for the record, it's not that, after careful consideration, I'll pop up out of the blue with a gem like that. But someone mentioned losing a light jacket they really liked, and that just fell outta my mouth.

I was a quiet, shy kid for the most part, which oddly enough made other kids in middle school want to harass me by asking uncomfortable personal questions. I really didn't have much to say, so sometimes I would just make up bullshit to make myself more interesting and to amuse myself. I started claiming to have past lives as a Vietnam vet and an Atlantean fisherman named Kronos.

Also that same year for some reason I thought it would be hilarious to convinced my homeroom teacher that I preferred to be called by the nickname "Skippy". The nickname lasted me well into high school.

I have picked up the Indian head bobble (meaning "yeah, yeah, whatever") from hanging out with my wife's coworkers.

I say "robot" like "robut"

I've started doing this too, I blame Zoidberg.

FUCK BEING TICKLED

I have picked up the Indian head bobble (meaning "yeah, yeah, whatever") from hanging out with my wife's coworkers.

― Three Word Username, Saturday, June 30, 2012 11:04 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh, what I meant was to ask what the indian head bobble was.

It's a gesture made by many Indians that indicates acceptance, if not full-on agreement, and is a sort of sideways nod. Google for video.