To be "multi-hyphenated" (itself hyphenated), you would need to be in the entertainment industry, and have multiple careers/talents - not just the traditional "triple threat" of singing, acting and dancing. Writers who direct and produce fall into the category. Well, it turns out that anyone who successfully pursues two or more professions is considered multl-hyphenated.
Doesn't it seem a curious expression? A label for all seasons. Was Galileo a mutli-hyphenate? Yes, says AI, telling us something we know.
Looking into the origins of the expression, this is the case of a lagging expression. The term is supposed to have originated in the 1970s.
I wondered about the term Polymath. It is a person of wide knowledge or learning. Was Galileo a polymath? Yes he was, being an expert in many fields of study. So was Leonardo da Vinci. In fact, they are considered examples of multi-hyphenate polymaths. I don't know what the doubling of the expressions does, but it is distinctive.
Polymaths came before mutli-hyphenates. Polymath is an expression from 1624. It was used in the 4th century to describe Plato. The Greek "polymathes" means having learned much, knowing much.
Of all the things to wonder about, one can find an indication of the expected IQ of a polymath on the internet. It says "true" polymaths tend to have an average IQ of 196. I wonder how they figured that out for Plato, Galilleo and Da Vinci.
Every once in a while, it is a big surprise to find jokes that are actually on topic. Here's the link to cartoonstock with the rest of the polymath jokes HERE.
This is sunflower season and they appear in all kinds of forms - here are a few images from the past archives.
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