Hubert van den Bergh

Co-author of 'How to Sound Cultured: master the 250 names that intellectuals love to drop into conversation' (Icon; out 5 Nov, 2015). Names like Derrida.

[QuantAMM @QuantAMMDeFi]

Welcome to Robodex! As we start to come out of stealth mode this is the place to be for major news updates. Starting with a big one today so stay tuned....

[Hubert van den Bergh @soundclever]

PLEONASTIC. What a wonderful word towards the end of a review of J.K.Rowling’s latest work by @JakeKerridge

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Sadly, we can't yet describe ourselves as 'plussed'. But a reminder that you can be gruntled, ruthful, couth, ruly, kempt, pecunious, toward, whelmed, and full of gorm.
https://t.co/5GpRNRepNc

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

A group of flamingoes is called a flamboyance. (Image: Pedro Szekely)

[Ihab. @Ihab8knicks]

My dad wanted to make a reservation at a restaurant and they told him that they were completely booked, minutes later he called back claiming to be the prime minister of Morocco..... we got the best table in the place and the chef answer him to sign a plate and take a pic w him😭

[Hubert van den Bergh @soundclever]

@parkroadkitchen Wonderful photo! So many congrats

[Hubert van den Bergh @soundclever]

@TWHodgkinson Betoken, touchstone, reactionary. A bit preposterous.

[Hubert van den Bergh @soundclever]

@TWHodgkinson And he managed to use 3 of the 600 words people pretend to understand when they don’t, to boot!

[Thomas W. Hodgkinson @TWHodgkinson]

Four cultural name-drops in a single paragraph. That takes some doing.
In Peter Bradshaw's review of #Loveless

[Hubert van den Bergh @soundclever]

Prince Harry doing his best impression yet of The Crown's Matt Smith @TheCrownNetflix #RoyalEngagement #PrinceHarry #MeghanMarkle

[Thomas W. Hodgkinson @TWHodgkinson]

Thank you, Craig Raine, for picking *How to Sound Cultured*, as one of your books of the year in The Spectator.

https://t.co/TUEmHC1qyR

[Hubert van den Bergh @soundclever]

Some great words from @Peston describing his new book WTF in Saturday's Telegraph including "to expectorate" = "to get off one's chest"

[Hubert van den Bergh @soundclever]

Ruth Davidson calls the Commons "Augean stables" . King Augeas's stables held 3,000 oxen and no one could clean them - until Hercules.

[Hubert van den Bergh @soundclever]

@yorze hola Yorzely Estoy creando un negocio con el nombre 'YORZE'. ¿Me venderías tu nombre de twitter de 'YORZE' si te envié $ 100?hubert

[Thomas W. Hodgkinson @TWHodgkinson]

Cultural namedrop #663
Tom Shone in the ST: the villain's lair resembles "a Bond villain’s hideout designed by Frank Gehry”.
@soundclever

[Hubert van den Bergh @soundclever]

#leCarrelive
Why do you write?

[Hubert van den Bergh @soundclever]

@parkroadkitchen @kernelbrewery Table Beer is my new favourite. Thanks Sam

[Hubert van den Bergh @soundclever]

@nebrinkley After she died, Charles Dickens slipped a ring off his sister-in-law's cold hand and wore it for the rest of his life

[Jason Sinclair @jlsinc]

Why does everyone involved with Trump look like a scene-stealer in a Coen brothers movie?

[Hubert van den Bergh @soundclever]

@briankoppelman The Goldfinch. Gripping but insightful about people too. I'm envious of you if you haven't yet read it.