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tow21 | 1 year 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.

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