Learned
Joel NeffLearned is a weekly meditation on meaning. We untangle near-synonyms, trace the histories of familiar words, and explore how usage shifts over time. It’s an ongoing conversation about language change, etymology, and all the fuzzy places in between.
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Also, the line between highbrow and lowbrow is monobrow.
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Morning view from my hotel wi...
Also, magazines used to tell us who we were.
Greetings from the magazine aisle of my local Tsutaya where I’m more than a little surprised to find the English version of Brutus for sale.
In the past few months, in these Also pieces, I’ve been talking a lot about rejecting digital arti...
Also, it’s time to engage in some preemptive anthropology.
Greetings from deep inside my Apple TV account where, apparently, we’re just buying licenses to access content because late-stage capitalism and the streaming economy are a special form of bullshit.
Given the state of streaming - the avail...
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Writer, educator, and professional overthinker. I publish weekly essays about language, learning, and the fuzzy spaces between knowing and not.
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