[mroman]

It's IGNORANT to refer to that word as pretentious.

I have seen that attitude from the room temp IQ crowd - never thought I would see it here.

[jrockway]

What lead you to believe that posters here have high IQs? Certainly not the articles or comments ;)

[randallsquared]

Average IQs would be sufficient to make his point. In my part of the world, "room temperature" refers to somewhere in the neighborhood of 75.

[stcredzero]

I've also met someone who thought it would be neat to be lumped in with the pseudo-intellectuals, because she thought it was a neat sounding word.