My friend
...is a bit of a smartarse, quite frankly. The riposte-ee in question is another friend's girlfriend, who thinks that she is smarter than everyone else. She's always banging on about literature and how none of her friends are very well read, yet if you do attempt to engage her on the subject it often becomes clear that she hasn't actually read very many books. For example, she often enthuses about H.P. Lovecraft yet recently admitted to a friend that she has not actually read any of his works. She also pronounces the word 'protagonist' as 'pro-ta-GOAN-ist'.

She, a law/arts student, recently posted a Facebook status update which said "Time spent preparing for Criminal Procedure: 4.5 days. Time spent studying English lit: 2 hours. Arts degree, this is why nobody takes you seriously." My friend, who has a Master's degree in the Arts field himself, responded, "Then again, you can't even pronounce 'protagonist', so a few more hours probably would not have gone astray."
(ridethefader, Sat 26 Nov 2011, 7:50, Reply)