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Old 07-26-10 | 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by patentcad
I can only imagine how you feel in the brain drain tsunami of the 33 Twitter Feed.
Oh no, the 33 twitter feed is very highbrow.

Used colloquially as a noun or adjective, highbrow is synonymous with intellectual; as an adjective, it also means elite, and generally carries a connotation of high culture. The word draws its metonymy from the pseudoscience of phrenology, and was originally simply a physical descriptor.[1] "Highbrow" can be applied to music, implying most of the classical music tradition; to literature, i.e. literary fiction; to films in the arthouse line; and to comedy that requires significant understanding of analogies or references to appreciate. As the former buzzword has lost some currency and sounds slightly passé, its use now gives an impression of mild irony.
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