the spirit is weak. woe be the spirit. the body is weaker still. Siërra R
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ask me about horses
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somewhere on website league
username will be botflymother
really if you wanna find me just look for botfly mother
gonna keep that name around for a good while

Osmose
@Osmose

a couple = as many as you want it to mean
a few = as many as you want it to mean
several = as many as you want it to mean
many = as many as you want it to mean
lots = as many as you want it to mean
a dozen = as many as you want it to mean1
a score = as many as you want it to mean
multitudes = as many as you want it to mean
a vast amount = as many as you want it to mean
countless = as many as you want it to mean


  1. But consider adding "or so" at the end just in case


vogon
@vogon

one of my favorite things to be jokingly prescriptive about is that "myriad" means "a whole lot", but "a myriad" means "exactly 10,000"

similarly, I like to insist that japanese 八百万やおよろず means exactly 8,000,000


exerian
@exerian

my favorite in this category is decimated.

people say it as if means "totally destroyed"

it doesn't. it means reduced by 10%.


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