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Physical Review Letters is not "high brow"... "High brow" is work intended for public consumption by well educated and perhaps a bit snobby laymen. Scholarly j
by throwawaypapaya 3y ago
Physical Review Letters is not "high brow"...
"High brow" is work intended for public consumption by well educated and perhaps a bit snobby laymen. Scholarly journals by contrast are intended for specialist audiences and are considered "academic", not "high brow".
- MichaelZuo 3y agoYour thinking of middle-brow. High-brow is aimed at a much smaller audience, typically implied as 'high society' or 'the elites' but not necessarily. I chose the two examples because they are publicly accessible and high-brow not because they are the most representative of the class.
- twelve40 3y agoboth seem straight-up scientific journals ("the world’s first and longest-running scientific journal") for specific disciplines. Calling them "high-brow literature" and comparing them with The New Yorker (and its essays on random topics) seems... strange?
- MichaelZuo 3y agoI don't care much if comments on HN seem strange, I care more about if they are correct.