Vox populi education. With increasing public familiarity with the term, several radio and television programs have been named "vox pop" in allusion to this practice. The Latin phrase (), 'The voice of the people [is] the voice of God', is an old proverb. An early reference to the expression is in a letter from Alcuin to Charlemagne in 798. The full quotation from Alcuin reads: English translation: This passage indicates that already by the end of the eighth century the phrase had become an aphorism of political common wisdom. Writing in the early 12th century, William of Malmesbury refers to the saying
Vox Sola Vox Sola "Vox Sola" (Latin for "lone voice") is the twenty-second episode (production #122) of the television series "". When a strange, symbiotic alien creature boards "Enterprise" and captures several crew members, it's up to Ensign Hoshi Sato to decipher the creature's complex language. On board "Enterprise", the Universal Translator has resulted in a minor diplomatic incident with the Kreetassans. Later, Ensign Sato analyzes their language and finds that each word can have a dozen meanings depending upon its context. As the Kreetassan vessel departs, a clear, amoeba-like entity crosses to "Enterprise", and systems begin to malfunction on a ship-wide