Pseudoclassic? Really dictionary.com?

Today's word wasn't so much used in conversation as it popped into my head while talking on the phone with a friend.

pseudoclassic

\ soo-doh-KLAS-ik \  , adjective;

1. Falsely or spuriously classic.

2. Imitating the classic: the pseudoclassic style of some modern authors.

 

So a little while ago I was talking on the phone with my friend who's still in high school, we'll call him Entido Oscarmeyerson.  We idly chatted about his economics class, which I notoriously despised last year due to my fiendish, lazy teacher.  

 

I won't use this blog as my soapbox, but let's just say out of the 24 teachers I had in high school, he was my 24th favorite.  I was more excited to get my wisdom teeth pulled than go to his class every morning.  If I had the choice between an hour alone in a room with him and two hours in a pit of fire with venomous tarantulas crawling over my body, I'd choose the latter.  But enough about HIM.

  

Entido asked me if I ever fell asleep whenever my econ teacher turned the lights off, and I explained that that never happened because he stopped teaching us after the third week of school.  I told Entido that my class worked out of an outdated book most of the semester.  

 

It was while I told Entido this that I thought to myself, It was a pseudoclassic textbook too.  I didn't learn a damn thing copying definitions and answering bonus questions.

 

To be clear, pseudoclassic really refers to a a kind of book or other art form that tries to be a classic, but really isn't.  Like the Harrison Ford film version of Sabrina trying to be the original with Audrey Hepburn.  Like the term "fetch" from Mean Girls, it's not going to happen.