Urbane
I decided I don't like the definition of urbane as "refined, polite, sophisticated." If we look at the latin it came from ("urbanus"), that's not what it means... and in modern english, "urban" certainly doesn't always mean refined, polite, sophisticated. I want a word that means in love with the city. Sophisticated, sure, but cities aren't always polite and refined. There's a lot of grit. There's pollution. There's people of all classes crushed together in something with a radius of just a couple miles. If you're too busy worrying about keeping your clothes pressed and clean, you are going to miss some of the most interesting things that happen in your city. You aren't urbane. You live in the city, perhaps. But you don't live the city.
English has too many words already for polished, prim, glamorous, elegant, refined, chic, whatever. Give us urbane.
Urbane, adj. Of or pertaining to denizens of urban areas.
I want to take it and then make it into one that specifies the groups that tend to cluster together in urban areas, and give it part of its personality -- drug-abusing professionals, artists and artist wannabes and hangers-on, homeless folk who could argue philosophy and literature. People who even as they help define the city depend on the city for their identity in a variety of ways, whether consciously through love of the place, or simply because their lifestyle is not possible elsewhere.
English has too many words already for polished, prim, glamorous, elegant, refined, chic, whatever. Give us urbane.
Urbane, adj. Of or pertaining to denizens of urban areas.
I want to take it and then make it into one that specifies the groups that tend to cluster together in urban areas, and give it part of its personality -- drug-abusing professionals, artists and artist wannabes and hangers-on, homeless folk who could argue philosophy and literature. People who even as they help define the city depend on the city for their identity in a variety of ways, whether consciously through love of the place, or simply because their lifestyle is not possible elsewhere.