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Your support makes all the difference.The 'cultural name drop', according to Thomas W Hodgkinson, is "a slap".
"It says: listen up! I carry the authority of knowledge... A sequence of such slaps can induce cultural concussion."
Hodgkinson himself used to suffer from 'Cultural Name Fatigue' - caused by people incessantly dropping names into conversation, film reviews and art exhibitions purely for the sake of sounding authoritative, and having no clue who they were on about.
This is what prompted him to collaborate with a 'sympathetic friend' (Hubert van den Bergh) to write How to Sound Cultured: Master the 250 Names That Intellectuals Love to Drop into Conversation.
The purpose of the book is to arm us normal folk against the name drop slap - give us a crash course in defending outselves against the dreaded Cultural Name Fatigue.
Are you at risk of the dreaded Fatigue? We've created a quiz for you to assess the danger level.
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