Monday, May 22, 2006

dilettante

Are you a dilettante?

According to Montclair College and Princeton, you may be a dilettante if you:

1. show... frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish; "his dilettantish efforts at painting"

Another word for dilettante: dabbler: an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge

But Dilletante used to mean:

a lover of the arts, but now primarily a literary or artistic hanger-on, superficial or amateurishî

It used to be cool and genuine and now its not.
Kind of like Koosh Balls.
Or "telling people about your band."
Or cereal.

I was going to write comedy albums, but then I started thinking too hard about that one.

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