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Highbrow. One word.
Highbrow. H -I -G -H -B -R -O -W.
Highbrow means highly educated.
Something that's a very intellectual.
very scholarly Mm -hmm so you can think of uh Harvard University or Oxford University Yale or Cambridge highbrow so art ART some people think art is eyebrow culture.
Some people believe classical music, like Chopin and Beethoven, is highbrow music, or even books like Shakespeare.
Shakespeare is for the highbrow.
What's interesting about that, a long, long time ago, Everybody enjoyed Shakespeare but now Shakespeare is considered highbrow.
Yes, so does highbrow sound nice?
Well, it can be nice but the typical usage means that only smart people or arrogant people.
People that are too smart, they like highbrow stuff.
So many times it has kind of a negative feeling to it Check out the dialogue Look my new Steven Pinker book.
Oh you are so high brow Oh, what are you reading pink who the pink panther?
very low brow Steven Pinker do you know Steven Pinker?
St. Evie and Pi nker steven pinker.
Yeah, he's a really smart guy I follow him.
I follow the guy on Twitter, and I actually have a couple of his books They're interesting But he's very high brow very high brow he's he's he's he's too high brow if you ask me Yeah And me you know I do like smart things But I'm not that highbrow, you know, I'm more lowbrow Lowbrow less in text intellectual less smart dumber Yeah, so you know something for the lowest common denominator We studied that expression a couple of days ago.
So yeah for me, you know, I do have Steven Pinker books but if I had the choice between watching a TV show with Steven Pinker or The pink panther, oh Definitely, I'll choose the pink panther.
I love the pink panther if you do not know the pink panther Oh my god, you need to find out Pinc panther p a n th er there are two pink panthers.
I love them both one is a a cartoon, a cartoon of an actual Pink Panther.
The other is about a French detective, Inspector Clusseau, the Pink Panther.
I love him, too, so both of those Pink Panthers are great.
Much more entertaining than Stephen Pinker.
Stephen Pinker is highbrow, only for the smart, very, very rich, Oxford University, Harvard University, those people.
The Pink Panther is for me having fun you guys have a great day check out the dialogue a couple more times and together let's master English.
Look my new Steven Pinker book.
You are so high brow.
Oh what are you reading?
Pink... who? The Pink Panther.
Very low brow. look my new Stephen Pinker book you are so high brow what are you reading pink the pink panther very lowbrow