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Sounds like Axel. I feel bad for him, because no one seems to care about his posts.
Idk, Axel is a little different. Axel and my favorite crazy 35 year old will all of a sudden make a random ass post that's largely irrelevant to the conversation. This guy makes posts relevant to the conversation, it's just that he always has to one up everyone.

So he always does this in threads regarding technology, and like with video game consoles, he'll boast how he has a personally modified version of it. This part at its core doesn't bother me, as he does seem like someone very interested in technology, my iffy over this, is how he'll talk about how that's the superior method of owning the console. Then in regards to newer consoles, he'll act like the typical PC Master race bullshit.

If he doesn't boast about either of those, he'll show off in another way. We were talking about SNES games, and he first had a normal comment saying that it had the best RPG's, then he threw in his typical one up post saying he had a private Japanese tutor translating the game for him.

Though he doesn't do this with just technology, he does this for all kinds of shit. Sometimes it's really obvious he's trying to show off to everybody, and other times I can't tell if that's just his way of talking.
It's a sort of "my willy is bigger than yours" thing. Some compensation issues, for sure.
Ah, I get ya.
Man, another thing that grinds my gears, is when I'm on Forum Promotion and I see people make an anime forum using incorrect Japanese. I wish some people would do some fucking research, cuz it's not that damn hard.

That goes for any language, don't know it, don't use it. It prevents embarrassment.
I usually cringe when people use foreign terms in languages I understand (usually it's in Italian, less French) and mispronounce them. It's not a big deal, but still.
Yeah, it is kind of silly. Another one is when people who are either just learning a language, or are obsessed with the language just throw random words of it into their sentences for shits and giggles.

Weaboos are usually the ones everyone thinks of when you hear that, but I cringed in high school when I heard people throw random Spanish in their sentences.

"Hey guys, I'm having a muy mal day. It was asi asi, but then all the bueno went away." Nobody is impressed by your use of Spanish, you sound like a tard.
Really? :haha:
I shit you not, people were doing that in high school, and I saw some of it in college. People think weaboos are the only ones who do that, but people do that with other languages, and it's retarded.
This sort of thing depends on the situation.

With Grungie's example, there are two main types: people who are just genuinely interested in learning the language, don't have any real way to practice, but are still overly excited- and then there's the type that actually think they are impressive or whatever. The first type are annoying, but it's innocent and forgivable as long as they aren't constantly doing it at dumb times. They just don't realise how dumb they look. I can actually recall times that I've been somewhat guilty of this (how embarrassing), though only in the class and in similar situations. I was never the type of dork to walk into a Mexican restaraunt and say 'Hola' or any of that. The second type are just annoying period.

On the internet and such it doesn't bother me because I've been in situations where the only sites that had the information I need are in Spanish. Though I told them all that I basically only speak English and I don't know what the fuck I'm doing (I knew more then than I do now too; now it's basically nothing. :p ). For me it's weird though, because I feel pathetic only speaking one language but there isn't any way for me to become bilingual without just insulting other languages. I feel like being a monolingual English speaker is pretty pathetic in a globalised world. It's not just that learning another language would be 'cool', but that it would legitimately be useful and I feel that it's a 'duty' of sorts in the modern world since I don't want English to have any more influence than it already does. >_>