Re:Why Fiction Beats Truth
by dctoedt on Monday May 27, 2019 @07:56AM
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> the hoi polloi
Pedantry: "The hoi polloi* is redundant — in Greek, hoi is a definite article equivalent to "the," so "the hoi polloi" is "the the many." [0] But yes, that's how the term has passed into common parlance, just as "ATM machine" is similarly redundant.
Pedantry: "The hoi polloi* is redundant — in Greek, hoi is a definite article equivalent to "the," so "the hoi polloi" is "the the many." [0] But yes, that's how the term has passed into common parlance, just as "ATM machine" is similarly redundant.
[0] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Hoi_polloi