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what do the knee-jerk prescriptivists say about using 'the' with hoi polloi when there's an intervening adjective?
Doesn't bother moi, but then I guess I don't fall easily into the prescriptivist bag. After all, it's not like the construction is Greek anymore, and it's stuck in medias English.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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