Fwd: interesting turn for "hoi polloi"

[Mark A. Mandel]

Arnold forwarded:

> From: Doug Worcester Kenter <dkenter at stanford.edu>
> Date: August 2, 2006 9:57:12 AM PDT
> To: "Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu>
> Subject: interesting turn for "hoi polloi"
>
> a columnist in the san francisco chronicle appears to use the term
> "hoi
> polloi" to refer to polarities in social class, rather than just, "the
> people":
>
> Now we are not suggesting that he has willfully neglected his
> duties, or
> that anyone in the organization would call him on it even if he
> was. He has
> Lew Wolff and above him, John Fisher, pot-committed to his
> leadership style,

"Pot-committed"?

m a m

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