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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 _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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