thanks to donger, who insists on using things like dictionaries as his authority on the english language rather than me, i've been enlightened that indeed "myriad" can be used both as a noun and an adjective.
from dictionary.com: "Throughout most of its history in English myriad was used as a noun, as in a myriad of men. In the 19th century it began to be used in poetry as an adjective, as in myriad men. Both usages in English are acceptable, as in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Myriad myriads of lives." This poetic, adjectival use became so well entrenched generally that many people came to consider it as the only correct use."
this proves several things:
1) i have smart friends
2) people other than googs read this blog
3) i don't fact check anything i write
4) i'm just a poetic kind of guy
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see- i'm not the only poetic one around! take the jump from the main page to the social technologies blog (which you should do often, because it's cool) and check out the 10/31 entry.
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