June 4, 2018　=========

☆  pretentious   見栄っ張りの

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If you say that someone is pretentious, you mean that they try to seem important or significant, but you do not think that they are. A funny example, is wine in Australia. We make such good wine here, especially in my state of South Australia. Generally, cask wines (boxes of 2L or 4L of wine) are actually pretty good quality. However, pretentious people would never, ever drink cask wine! Never!

Also, with wine, pretentious people will always smell the wine. Now of course, this is one way of getting to know the wine. However, the only real way to know if a wine is good or not, is to taste it!

How about in Japan? Are there any things that are particularly pretentious like my example of wine in Australia?

Bye,

Chris