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Otherwise pointless pedantry, but in line with the "nobody cares about quality" ... "the hoi polloi" grates every time I read it. "hoi polloi" literally means
by tow21 2y ago
Otherwise pointless pedantry, but in line with the "nobody cares about quality" ...
"the hoi polloi" grates every time I read it. "hoi polloi" literally means "the many", so this is an awkward pleonasm, "the the many", amounting to a lack of quality in a piece of writing.