Many Moleskine users send us enquiries as to which is the correct way of pronouncing the word "Moleskine". The answer is: there is no predetermined answer.
Moleskine® is a brand name with undefined national identity. And that's the way we like it. As a literary name, it was used by British travel writer Bruce Chatwin in his book "The Songlines", referred to the little black notebooks he usually bought from a stationery store in Paris.
Everyone should feel free to pronounce it as he/she prefers. Enjoy.
This information does not surprise me. The notebooks are expensive enough that only pretentious people will purchase them, but the marketing department isn't confident enough in their own "historic" product to tell those pretentious people how to pronounce words. Way to go!
This information does not surprise me. The notebooks are expensive enough that only pretentious people will purchase them, but the marketing department isn't confident enough in their own "historic" product to tell those pretentious people how to pronounce words. Way to go!
How do you know it's not pretentious to pretend that these notebooks are pretentious? Just a thought.
How silly! Notebooks cannot be pretentious! (And, FTR, I think the OP is probably not making any assertions about the notebooks themselves.) They can be the articles and possessions of pretentious people, perhaps, or the product of a pretentious company, but they certainly cannot be pretentious by themselves, for they have no capacity to presume or pretend to be anything other than what they are.
Although, I am entertained by the idea that so many people seem to believe that by carrying what amounts to a very expensive notepad, they will be granted some elevated level of creativity, or at least some credibility in creative communities.
They're notebooks. Admittedly very well designed and high quality, but still, in essence, notebooks.
Unfortunately, often, people that buy them see themselves as more after the purchase than before, which is something that we all know to be untrue.
All spoken from the seat of a man who owns several of these things, mind you.
Sometimes it's important to know the names of things. In my dream, a small notebook assumes one meaning if it is a "mole skin." It takes on quite a different dream-meaning if it is "Molly's kin."
There's nothing pretentious about knowing, or wanting to know.
Perfect approach for today's world - no right or wrong - whatever you FEEL - the art of non-commitment in life at its finest!