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The English expression the hoi polloi (/ ˌ h ɔɪ p ə ˈ l ɔɪ /; from Ancient Greek οἱ πολλοί (hoi polloí) 'the many') was borrowed from Ancient Greek, where it means "the many" or, in the strictest sense, "the people".
Hoity Toity (Russian: Хойти-Тойти) is a 1929 Soviet science fiction novella written by Alexander Belyayev.The novel, part of the Professor Wagner's Inventions series, was first published in Vsemirny Sledopyt magazine between January and February 1930.
Hoity Toity (German: Adel Verpflichtet, pronounced [ˈaːdl̩ fɛɐ̯ˈp͡flɪçtət], lit. ' Noblesse oblige ' ) is a board game created by Klaus Teuber in 1990. Publication history
And if in one's mind we hear the voice of "Wikipedia" saying such titles using a pronunciation native to Spanish or whatever the language in question, I don't think such an effect is hoity toity so much as just seeming appropriately "encyclopedically" accurate.--Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden 16:59, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Namby-pamby is a term for affected, weak, and maudlin speech/verse. It originates from the poem Namby Pamby (1725) by Henry Carey.. Carey wrote his poem as a satire of Ambrose Philips and published it in his Poems on Several Occasions.
A famous example for lexical ambiguity is the following sentence: "Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen hinterher.", meaning "When flies fly behind flies, then flies fly in pursuit of flies." [40] [circular reference] It takes advantage of some German nouns and corresponding verbs being homonymous. While not noticeable ...
The first involves those who focus upon the individual reader's experience ("individualists"). Reader-response critics in the United States such as Holland and Bleich are characterized as individualists due to their use of psychology as starting point, focusing on the individual identity when processing a text. [8]
A Sufi lodge [a] is a building designed specifically for gatherings of a Sufi brotherhood or tariqa and is a place for spiritual practice and religious education. [1] They include structures also known as khānaqāh, zāwiya, ribāṭ, dargāh and takya depending on the region, language and period (see § Terminology).