The phrase "affable learned" is not standard in written English and may be confusing.
It could be used to describe someone who is both friendly and knowledgeable, but the combination is unusual and may require clarification.
Example: "The affable learned professor made complex topics accessible to all his students."
Alternatives: "friendly scholar" or "approachable expert".
Mr. Ramos, abused as a child, is an affable man who learned computer programming during a 30-year stretch for a violent altercation.
In 2000, the media gave Bush an easy ride because he was affable, but have learned nothing after his presidency turned out to be laughable.
But I learned an enormous amount there.' An affable, unassuming man, Bourdin enjoys such accolades, but he can also laugh at himself.
Mr. Hagel learned to get along as an easy charmer and prodigious but affable self-promoter.
A North Carolinian by birth, Mr. Sutton learned to distill in Cocke County, where he was known as an affable rogue and a maker of potent but fine-tasting corn whiskey.
Like the fugitive past, the LinkedIn process was inexorable (and perhaps unethical, I learned later, thanks to a security breach caused in part by the blandly affable company's failure to "hash" and "salt" subscribers' passwords like so many boiled potatoes).
The normally affable Jones agreed that something probably needed to be done to improve the defense, but he was angry that he learned about being rotated from reporters.
I learned over repeated visits to arrive early, so I could chat with Ms. Braunstein, one of many extremely affable servers, and enjoy the delicious pâté, made from the livers of the farm's own chickens, which eat mostly grass.
But the affable Mr. Tarr was disappointed to learn of the demise of a typical stop on his world travels: the Mars Bar in the East Village, which closed last year.
This unsettling reality for the affable race caller has become the norm after learning of death threats against him shortly after he was named the permanent replacement for Trevor Denman.
