dear joe rogan,

as a fluent speaker of the English language, i am absolutely appalled by your blatant missuse of the word "academic." here is the definition for future reference.



ac·a·dem·ic /ˌækəˈdɛmɪk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ak-uh-dem-ik]

–adjective 1. of or pertaining to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution, esp. one for higher education: academic requirements.

2. pertaining to areas of study that are not primarily vocational or applied, as the humanities or pure mathematics.

3. theoretical or hypothetical; not practical, realistic, or directly useful: an academic question; an academic discussion of a matter already decided.

4. learned or scholarly but lacking in worldliness, common sense, or practicality.

5. conforming to set rules, standards, or traditions; conventional: academic painting.

6. acquired by formal education, esp. at a college or university: academic preparation for the ministry.

7. (initial capital letter) of or pertaining to Academe or to the Platonic school of philosophy.

–noun 8. a student or teacher at a college or university.

9. a person who is academic in background, attitudes, methods, etc.: He was by temperament an academic, concerned with books and the arts.

10. (initial capital letter) a person who supports or advocates the Platonic school of philosophy.

11. academics, the scholarly activities of a school or university, as classroom studies or research projects: more emphasis on academics and less on athletics.



[Origin: 1580–90; < L Académicus < Gk Akadémeikós. See academy, academe, -ic]