Because now it's a noun that requires another noun to define it.

Well so be it

It's literally an adjective pretending to be a noun

Then it's now both

A linguistic anomaly, which didn't used to be a thing, but since people didn't know that "A myriad" was not a thing, and nobody corrected them, they continue to use it incorrectly

So now you're confused when I try to ask you what "a myriad" is.

Like I said, this happens all the time

Show me this singular myriad.

You make me want to metaphorically blow my brains out in a myriad of ways.

A ton of other things used to mean something else

I used the adjective version of the word

But anything that has changed meaning was often descriptive. There are prescriptive words.

Such as "literally"

Which is meant to mean exactly as you see it, and as it happened.

Now we also allow using it as the literal antonym: figuratively.

So now the word becomes a confusion. You cannot trust that when something says that something "literally" happened, we have permitted it to also mean it might only have figuratively happened.

That's a form of hyperbole, people do that all the time

Like when they say "all my life I've been waiting"

No they haven't been waiting all their life

Because as babies they couldn't have waited

They weren't aware of what they would be waiting for

It literally means the same thing

But it *doesn't*

Because both are distinct, yes?

Even tho they mean the exact same thing

Wait what

So when someone says "I'm literally dead" and they stand before you, still quite very alive, do you think they may have used the word incorrectly?

*"A* countless or extremely great number"
"countless or extremely great *IN* number"

Definitely literally not the same

So a myriad of different dreams. A myriad of queers at a trans parade. They're all crazy different dreams. They're all crazy demented confused gay people. Noun. Refering to *them* or the *thing* like my dream or those queers.

Adjective being in a myriad of ways I want to metaphorically blow my brains out. *in many different ways*

@Lios that's hyperbole to express an extreme reaction, like for example shock, or strong laughter

Doesn't answer the question, though. Is the word being used correctly?

Yes

It's both

It is

It's being used correctly and incorrectly

I used it correctly

In the *literal* sense it's being used incorrectly, in the *figurative* sense it's being used correctly

Myriad is the old topic, Joey, keep up