8 Aug
2003
8 Aug
'03
9:04 p.m.
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
Myriad, at least in the classical meaning, means "ten thousand". That's
all. A myriad of objects is ten thousand objects.
Peace... Sridhar
As long as
we're bitching, the hairs on the back of my neck stand up
(all too frequently, as it's currently in vogue) when people try to be
erudite (but prove the reverse) by referring to: "A myriad of...".
It's a stupid word, widely misused, probably not very understood, and is
better replaced with "bunch (of)" or "many" or even
"plethora" which is
a fun word because its not common and gets funny looks from the
vocabularily challenged.