/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19467196]

Can writing be pretentious or is it only in speech?

[Anonymous No.19467203]

>>19467196
It's how fluent you are in it. If it has any emphasis on the word it looks pretentious.

[Anonymous No.19467207]

>>19467196
>a relatively common word in a Romance language is considered a prestigious word in English

[Anonymous No.19467208]

>>19467196
>can writing be pretentious
yes
>or is it only in speech?
no

[Anonymous No.19467224]

>>19467196
"pretentious" is just the word brainlets use when they're mad someone uses a word they don't know

[Anonymous No.19467244]

>>19467207
Yeah tardy is considered fancy asf while the german equivalent, late, is considered run of the mill. Excepting where there's no german equivalent, like -tion suffix words etc, that's the same pattern that holds and has held for a millennia now (but probably longer for German in general given the Romans but idk German).

[Anonymous No.19467256]

>>19467207
Many such cases

[Anonymous No.19467282]

>>19467207
English is such a plebian language, who knew?

[Anonymous No.19467314]

>>19467196
Pretentiousness in writing requires pretence from the author, and finding that means being suspicious of the author's intentions. If you think they have a poor handle of their vocabulary, or that they're using technical terms incorrectly, those could be grounds for suspicion; but most of the time "pretentiousness" is found by people who just don't know the vocabulary and find it out of place just for being unfamiliar.

That doesn't mean you have license to use the rarest words you can find, though. Having good style means having good sentences, not good words.

[Anonymous No.19469277]

>>19467196
that word is extremely common in Spanish; we have "peregrinaciones" all the time like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2k_L-n9jzA

[Anonymous No.19469290]

>>19467196
This is obvious to anyone who knows a Romance language.

[Anonymous No.19469313]

>>19467196
context is king. also how you interwind it.
>>19467207
Yah, cause the normal word is "walk" in english.

[Anonymous No.19470673]

>>19467207
> Imported word is considered affected and out of place
Woah...

[Anonymous No.19470736]

>>19467207
>>19469277
>>19469290
Yeah but imagine if someone said a word like "erstwhile" or "quagmire" when they were speaking Spanish.

[Anonymous No.19470833]

>>19467196
The word peregrinate comes from the words per
and agri.

It's also directly related to the world pilgrim. And also the namesake of the 'peregrine falcon'. So if you used it in such a context you could enlighten the reader instead of baffling them.

[Anonymous No.19470839]

>>19470736
Erstcuando

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !Ry9.MAY90A No.19470853]

TU LENGUA ES BÁRBARA CUANDO LA PALABRA: «PEREGRINAR», ES CONSIDERADA DE USO «PRETENCIOSO».

[Anonymous No.19471675]

>>19467224
Sometimes. But sometimes it also happens that someone uses a word he himself doesn't know. And that makes him pretentious.