Higher Education and Urbanity in Detroit

[gnome]

who in the heck would use a word like urbanity without a whiff of ironic intent intended?

Now I'm all in favor of word-play and creating funkified spellings with twisty-logicalisms thrown around just for fun, but really now, urbanity? What exactly do you mean by that word? A city? Is a specific density required by you to meet your meaning of urbanity? 'Cuz if so, Grand Rapids may have already be ahead of Detroit on a student-body density scale. Certainly The density levels of dorm complexes at MSU, Western and Central certainly trumps Wayne's mainly commuter student body on any density scale. Keep in mind, of those 32,000 Wayne Staters, a mere fraction live within walking distance of Old Main.

So, if urbanity equates to density and there is greater population density in Western's Valleys, than in Detroit's Midtown, are you saying your desire for urbanity has already reached apogee in the unwashed hinterlands?

Gee, what do them hicks know that we done don't?

Oh, one last thing, don't use words you don't understand. It makes you look uneducated, Sean.

[Melocoton]

who in the heck would use a word like urbanity without a whiff of ironic intent intended?

Now I'm all in favor of word-play and creating funkified spellings with twisty-logicalisms thrown around just for fun, but really now, urbanity? What exactly do you mean by that word? ...

Oh, one last thing, don't use words you don't understand. It makes you look uneducated, Sean.

Not quite sure what you're so mad about, but according to the OED:

3. The state, condition, or character of a town or city; life in a city; town-life.In freq. use from c1898.

c1550: Complaynt Scotl. [[1979) vi. 34 Tha detestit vrbanite and desirit to lyue in villagis.
1789: W. Belsham Ess. I. xvii. 328, The serenity, the elegance and urbanity of Paris.
1877: R. Martineau tr. Goldziher Mythol. Hebrews iv. 83. This trait of glorification of the old-fashioned Beduin-life, to the disparagement of the free urbanity of the townsmen.
1898: F. W. Maitland Township & Borough 13. A difference between‥urbanity and rusticity.
1900: A. Jessopp in Birm. Weekly Post 14 Apr. 5/3. A glimpse of the world of streets and the docks and the seamy side of ‘urbanity’.

Note the 1550 example: the more things change...