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Re: Klingon WOTD: netlh DIS poH (noun)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doq)
Mon Mar 24 10:29:05 2008
Cc: d'Armond Speers <speersd@georgetown.edu>
From: Doq <doq@embarqmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:26:43 -0400
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This is an odd use of myriad. I looked it up. I could see it as a
gloss for {netlh}, but not for {netlh DIS poH}. Oh, and then there's
the missing zero.
Doq
The entry:
myriad |ˈmirēəd| poetic/literary
noun
1 a countless or extremely great number : networks connecting a myriad
ofcomputers.
2 (chiefly in classical history) a unit of ten thousand.
adjective
countless or extremely great in number : the myriad lights of the city.
• having countless or very many elements or aspects : the myriad
political scene.
ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (sense 2 of the noun) : via late Latin from
Greekmurias, muriad-, from murioi ‘10,000.’
USAGE Myriad is derived from a Greek noun and adjective meaning ‘ten
thousand’. It was first used in English as a noun in reference to a
great but indefinite number. The adjectival sense of ‘countless,
innumerable’ appeared much later. In modern English, use of myriadas
a noun and adjective are equally standard and correct, despite the
fact that some traditionalists consider the adjective as the only
acceptable use of the word.
On Mar 22, 2008, at 7:00 AM, speersd@georgetown.edu wrote:
> This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Saturday, March 22, 2008.
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> Category: General
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> Klingon word: netlh DIS poH
> Part of Speech: noun
> Definition: myriad; 10,00 years
> Source: HQ (8:3 p3)
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