No comment on the weirdness of the fact that it means “the many” and is consistently prefaced by the word “the”? So most users are quite literally, if bilingually, saying “the the many”?
Lucian says
December 17, 2014 at 10:20 am
Benjamin is correct: hoi in Ancient Greek is the masculine nominative plural definite article, meaning “the”; so when the NBC New York and The Independent journalists cited above write “the hoi polloi” they are, technically, committing a redundancy.
It's almost as awful as "ATM machine"
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
No comment on the weirdness of the fact that it means “the many” and is consistently prefaced by the word “the”? So most users are quite literally, if bilingually, saying “the the many”?
Lucian says
December 17, 2014 at 10:20 am
Benjamin is correct: hoi in Ancient Greek is the masculine nominative plural definite article, meaning “the”; so when the NBC New York and The Independent journalists cited above write “the hoi polloi” they are, technically, committing a redundancy.
It's almost as awful as "ATM machine"
or "PIN number" / "VIN number" -"BB"-
Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
It would appear that I am better at deleting posts than Darren.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
