Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda

Re:Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies int... by tauntz on Friday January 07, 2022 @10:21AM (#29840114)

Thanks for a thorough explanation and background!

I used Urban Dictionary for "pretentious" due to the OP explicitly referring to it to understand the meaning of woke.

But this got me intrigued now :) I still can't think of a phrase or word in Estonian that would convey the same (or even similar) meaning. I searched through a couple of dictionaries now and the translations provided there are really not useful. They mean either "complains a lot" or alternatively "has unreasonably high standards / is high maintenance", "braggy" and "pedantic". And these doesn't sound even remotely close to the English explanation of the word.. at all.

Any fellow Estonians wanna help me out here - is there a phrase or word that would capture the essence of "pretentious" in Estonian? :)

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Re:Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies int... by shkkmo on Friday January 07, 2022 @10:57AM (#29840593)

"Braggy" and "pedantic" do share some meaning/conotation overlap with "pretentious" but I don't think "complains a lot" or "has unreasonably high standards" really overlap (though terms for those may in Estonianl.

Another English word that is very similar in meaning is "ostentatious".

If I had to write out my own definition of "pretentious" it would be: Pretending to be higher class, more refined, more educated or more moral than you actually are and implying that makes you superior to other people.

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