--- Soren Harward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just checked this with my girlfriend, whose > qualifications to make a > definitive statement on grammar and usage are so > long I won't attempt to > list them. She says to use "myriad" in exactly the > same way you would > use "many": as an adjective. The noun form is > technically incorrect but > is so often misused that it's gaining grudging > acceptance from usage > nit-pickers.
Must ... resist ... can't ... Amusing. There are more people that claim to be 'experts' at language than you can shake a stick at. They are more like shamen than experts. While I don't claim to know very much about Language, I do know that language lives in *humans*, not *books*. Thus if regular people use the word myriad as a noun, adjective, or even as a verb, then that's what it is. IMNSHO too many so-called English grammar 'experts' have an inferiorty complex, so they go around telling native speakers how to speak their own language. -Jon D. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
