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HelpRe: Are Roman names pretentious?
in reply to a message by queenv
It means trying to look better/smarter/more sophisticated than you actually are.
Mind you, "to know your ignorance is part of knowledge." So the person perhaps wouldn't know they were 'pretending'. It would be for someone else, who thinks they're smarter, to define the person as pretentious. Are there any names that you think only dumber people would use? Not teenage mom/kre8tive ones, but ones that you think a dumber person would be fooled into thinking is super unique and classy, even though you, with your greater wisdom, have come to realise is not so? It also depends what you think of the individual person. If someone who I thought was dumb used Clementine, I'd say "How pretentious," but if someone I really liked used it, I'd say "Beautiful name."
Mind you, "to know your ignorance is part of knowledge." So the person perhaps wouldn't know they were 'pretending'. It would be for someone else, who thinks they're smarter, to define the person as pretentious. Are there any names that you think only dumber people would use? Not teenage mom/kre8tive ones, but ones that you think a dumber person would be fooled into thinking is super unique and classy, even though you, with your greater wisdom, have come to realise is not so? It also depends what you think of the individual person. If someone who I thought was dumb used Clementine, I'd say "How pretentious," but if someone I really liked used it, I'd say "Beautiful name."
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