Am I pretentious?

Joffrey · Sep 19, 2008

I tend to call my cubicle my office. Is that being pretentious? I think cubicle sounds lame, and I don't see why I can't call my workstation - as my boss calls our cube or desks, my office just because it doesn't have 4 walls and a door.

Help!

Go Surface · Sep 19, 2008

You're asking this on styleforum? Forreal.......?

Brian278 · Sep 19, 2008

Originally Posted by Jodum5

I tend to call my cubicle my office. Is that being pretentious? I think cubicle sounds lame, and I don't see why I can't call my workstation - as my boss calls our cube or desks, my office just because it doesn't have 4 walls and a door. Help!
If you're making a thread about this then yeah, you are. You can't call it an office because it isn't one. An office has 4 walls and a door. Your cubicle does not. Go with workstation or desk.

bach · Sep 19, 2008

Originally Posted by Jodum5

I tend to call my cubicle my office. Is that being pretentious? I think cubicle sounds lame, and I don't see why I can't call my workstation - as my boss calls our cube or desks, my office just because it doesn't have 4 walls and a door. Help!
in my opinion, it's pretentious because you are trying to create the impression that your workspace is more important/better than it is in reality. sorry if that sounds dick-ish. how did this nomenclatural situation come up, anyway?

Thomas · Sep 19, 2008

Paging Les Nessman...

rach2jlc · Sep 19, 2008

Originally Posted by bach

how did this nomenclatural situation come up, anyway?

Alright, alright... you had success with your Linguistics course on another thread, but you're just trying to repeat your past glory, here.

Anyway, Jodum... "office" instead of cubicle... no big deal. "Office" as in a place where you get your work done can be a psychological space as much as a real one.

Now, here are some REAL pretentious namings:

1. If you call your "basement," regardless of its furnishings, a "lower level."
2. If you refer to your bedroom as a "boudoir" or the sink in front of the toilet a "dressing table."
3. If you call your guest bedroom with no bed, but a desk and a veneer bookshelf, a "study" OR a "library."

Thomas · Sep 19, 2008

Originally Posted by rach2jlc

Alright, alright... you had success with your Linguistics course on another thread, but you're just trying to repeat your past glory, here.

Anyway, Jodum... "office" instead of cubicle... no big deal. "Office" as in a place where you get your work done can be a psychological space as much as a real one.

Now, here are some REAL pretentious namings:

1. If you call your "basement," regardless of its furnishings, a "lower level."
2. If you refer to your bedroom as a "boudoir" or the sink in front of the toilet a "dressing table."
3. If you call your guest bedroom with no bed, but a desk and a veneer bookshelf, a "study" OR a "library."

I was doing fine until #3. Damn it all.

bach · Sep 19, 2008

Originally Posted by rach2jlc

Alright, alright... you had success with your Linguistics course on another thread, but you're just trying to repeat your past glory, here.

this is what happens when you have nothing to do but study... which i should probably start doing.

Alter · Sep 19, 2008

Pretentious? Moi?

Joffrey · Sep 19, 2008

Originally Posted by rach2jlc

Anyway, Jodum... "office" instead of cubicle... no big deal. "Office" as in a place where you get your work done can be a psychological space as much as a real one.

Thanks all I needed to hear. This thread can be squirreled now.

R-H · Sep 19, 2008

Originally Posted by Thomas

Paging Les Nessman...

Beat me to it...

Stazy · Sep 19, 2008

Originally Posted by Jodum5

Thanks all I needed to hear. This thread can be squirreled now.
So basically you were just waiting for someone to agree with you. Personally, I think it is pretentious to call your cubicle an office.

FidelCashflow · Sep 19, 2008

Is it pretentious to refer to a tailor as "my tailor" when someone asks where you're going?

rach2jlc · Sep 19, 2008

Originally Posted by FidelCashflow

Is it pretentious to refer to a tailor as "my tailor" when someone asks where you're going?

Yes, it is. The non-pretentious reference would be to call him 'the cut-and-sew man."

alliswell · Sep 19, 2008

No, if he's really a tailor; yes, if he's altering RTW pants for you.

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