Myriad
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[edit] Origins
The word "myriad" was invented by those classic Greek idiots and proves once and for all that all those ancient Greek bastards smoked too much crack. It's no wonder that they are all extinct.
For some daft reason some Greek robe wearing dumb ass motherfucker thought it to be a neat idea if he'd give a number over 9000 it's own name, "Myriad". The Greek showoff apparently didn't find the sound of ten thousand very exciting and wanted something more classy.
To illustrate the silliness of this whole deal, the following example:
Nine-thousand-nine-hundred-ninety eight Nine-thousand-nine-hundred-ninety nine MYRIAD!!!! Myriad and one Myriad and two
Or try to imagine how one could actually use this word in real life
- A myriad of birds in the sky - WTF? Have you counted them? And found 10000 birds??
- A Myriad of options - How the hell do you know it's a 10000 multiple choice question, unless it's one of those 4-digit response questions on the new math section of the SAT??
- The myriad small creatures (from pink Floyd - high hopes) - If they're so small, who bloody cares?
- Well, about a couple of dozen myriad - Really?
The uses for the word myriad are so few in number that you could probably only think up a myriad valid uses for the word myriad. This may seem like a insanely large amount of uses for the word myriad, but it is nothing compared to words like googleplex of which at least a googleplex uses are known.
[edit] Other uses
It has been argued that by using the word 'Myriad' it does not, in fact, directly mean 10000 but simply indicates a number that is, most likely, not a great deal smaller or greater then 10000. Either way is is commonly agreed that a Myriad is over 9000. So you could assume that 2 myriad could be roughly around 20000. in this case the numbers possibly being 20001 or 19989 would be a valid candidates to call a myriad.
This use or form could be considered acceptable in modern day language where it not that:
- It's still a dumb word
- A Crackpot Greek extinct wise ass invented it
- you can simply say 20000, Twenty-thousand, 20k, 20 Bigguns, Loads, Lot's of, A lot or Enough.
- Most people have no fucking clue (except for the Swedish) what or how much a myriad is
So in the end the word Myriads only uses include:
- Applying it in everyday language to showoff your Hugh but useless extended vocabulary.
- Confusing people in order to cause chaos and panic, or win some stupid argument(1).
1. (finest example: I could name a myriad of reasons).
[edit] Sweden and the Myriameter
The Swedish use their own borked version of the Myriad. According to a usually very unreliable source the Swedish mile was longer then the metric one which they called a myriameter. So the Swedish tweaked the myriameter to fit with the new metric system. As a result, Sweden suddenly got a lot bigger.
