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No, I don't think Roman names are pretentious. And it's ludicrous to ever say that "only" this or that type of people use any type of name.

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My daughter's name is Victoria, which is an ancient Roman name. I'm far from snobbish and I sure don't think that I'm a hipster. It might help if I knew exactly what a hipster is, but I really don't think that I am one.

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It was okay for your friend to say that Roman names are pretentious, though, because that's her opinion. There's no objective truth to it. There is no objective truth to any opinion. In a recent thread, several people said that Atticus is pretentious. I don't find it so. I love it. So they think it is, I think it isn't, and since there's no objective truth, it's not worth arguing about.

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But it wasn't okay for her to say that only snobbish people and hipsters use Roman names, because that, if true, would be a fact, and it's not true and she shouldn't erroneously state something as a fact.