Thread: Looking for language exchange

Originally Posted by kgcole

Thanks for the input diogen_....I dunno, I don't think "highbrow" really works in this context. I'd still stick with "erudite", Helene, or just "intelligent". Wait a minute.....ABBY listed "well-read". That's a possibility.

When I said that a word in a particular context sounds bookish to me I meant that it is not typical of colloquial speech, but rather of literature style. Maybe I should just say, "It sounds like in the literature"? But it's not compact. We say, "Выражение относится к литературному стилю."