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This hilariously pretentious list of ‘the bare minimum for holding a conversation’ was deservedly mocked into the stratosphere – 16 stellar comebacks

David Harris. Updated August 30th, 2025

We’re aware that it’s a bold claim, but the following tweet from an account called Cœur de Léon may well be the most pretentious tweet of all time.

It’s a suggestion that to hold a conversation with someone you should be familiar with the works of the following 24 writers and philosophers at the very least.

Here’s the tweet.


We’ll be honest, there’s a fair few on that list whose names we’d struggle to even spell. Perhaps the replies weren’t quite as profound as the collected works of Schopenhauer, but there’s no doubt that they were more entertaining…

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