Shit stirring: part II

I couldn't read all the shit stirring posts about Muslims taking over. It upset me too much. Within the first few posts there were already several uses of the word "myriad" as a noun. I always try to tell people that the correct usage of "myriad" is as an adjective. It is a myriad mysteries, not a myriad of anything.

So before I wrote this I did a bit of googling, it seems that mostly it's just snobs like me who insist on it being used (properly) as an adjective only. It seems that so many people use it as a noun that we have had to just accept it. Now, this is a real threat.

How come no one is kicking up a fuss about this?

The myriad slings and arrows my poor second language must suffer...

t

I feel your pain. Rhetoric is a good example of a word that has new meaning anymore. Somehow it turned into - speach that is cleverly misleading and a current stance of a political party. Which is not the dictionary meaning at all.

Here's another one too...thanks to Alanis Morressette everyone seems to use the word "ironic" completely incorrect. Now it's used as strange coincidences, instead of something possessing opposite qualities.

Our language is turning to shit I tell you!!!

I just had this conversation w/r/t the word rhetoric yesterday. Its second meaning was always the more nefarious one with its primary use being the whole oratory speech and debate type of thing. It's switched lately.

An Aussie and two Yanks.

Fuck off and get your own languages if you don't like it. :p

Tinny wrote: I always try to tell people that the correct usage of "myriad" is as an adjective. It is a myriad mysteries, not a myriad of anything.

So before I wrote this I did a bit of googling, it seems that mostly it's just snobs like me who insist on it being used (properly) as an adjective only. It seems that so many people use it as a noun that we have had to just accept it. Now, this is a real threat.

How come no one is kicking up a fuss about this?

t

No one kicked up a fuss because they were reading coherent English and correct use of a noun.

You should have googled, from the Cambridge dictionary

myriad
noun [C] LITERARY a very large number of something: a myriad of choices And now myriads of bars and hotels are opening up along the coast. myriad
adjective: They offered no solution for all our myriad problems.

As Dave says ....

The grammatical errors that really piss me off are:

1. the use of 'kids' instead of children. Kids are the offspring of goats
2. the use of 'massive' to describe large, huge or anything else that is oversize. Massive refers to how much mass an object contains, and therefore due to the force of gravity - weight.
3. the use of 'decimated' to describe vast destruction or wholescale murder. In fact decimated means that only 1 out of 10 were killed, which in current military values would be quite favourable.
4. the use of 'stadiums' as the plural of stadium, when it is actually stadia.

Oi Brudder,we does have our own langwij orready. It's called VB.