Re: CHAT: Measurements (was: Re: CHAT: browsers)
From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
Date: | Friday, February 14, 2003, 18:11 |
Tristan wrote:
>Andreas Johansson wrote:
>>Last I checked, Maggel didn't have very many speakers, so few people'll be
>>confused to to the Maggel usage.
>
>Well, I'll be. I think that's a bigger problem that needs rectification
>before we try replacing 'ten thousand' with 'myriad'. Of course, there's
>always the problem that people will be confused by 'a myriad of ways'
>(the most common meaning and perhaps the only current meaning) and 'a
>myriad ways'.
I'm not aware of any other current meaning, but then I'm a non-native
speaker. Anyways, crowding out this usage was kind of the point.
Andreas
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