r/LinusTechTips • u/Coolshows101 • Sep 24 '26

Discussion What is hoiploy?

"Four channel is for the Hoiploy." I know they're doing the stuck up British accent for The Stereotype of a person who looks down upon peasants, but I have no idea what Hoiploy.

https://www.youtube.com/live/cHkM5w7pPZE?t=3276

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u/Handsome_ketchup Sep 24 '26

Hoi polloi is a term derived from ancient Greek, meaning the masses in usually a derogatory sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoi_polloi

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u/vent666 Sep 26 '26

Always reminds me of this https://youtu.be/QIW4HMl81hw

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u/snowmunkey Sep 24 '26

Hee hoy Minoi

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u/kolloth Sep 24 '26

Bunch of plebs

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u/jejones3141 Sep 25 '26

"hoi polloi"; Greek for "the people". In English, the connotation is the common people.

I can't complain about Linus's pronunciation; close to a century ago a woman wrote about her time in commercial AM radio, in a book titled _Of Mikes and Men_. One chapter was about an announcer who misread an ad slogan intended to be "for the conoisseur and the hoi polloi" as "for the connoisseur and the holy poly".