"The plethoric infantry of Our Big Assyrian Army" Topic
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| L Empereur | 09 Jul 2026 11:53 p.m. PST |
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| Kevin C | 10 Jul 2026 8:40 a.m. PST |
Beautiful 15mm figures. Thanks for posting. |
robert piepenbrink  | 10 Jul 2026 9:45 a.m. PST |
Nice figures! Whereabouts exactly is Plethora? |
| Dave Jackson | 10 Jul 2026 10:25 a.m. PST |
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| Marcus Brutus | 11 Jul 2026 5:39 a.m. PST |
A 180 or so 15mm figures does not constitute a plethora in my estimation. People's sense of mass in gaming has gotten smaller. |
| L Empereur | 11 Jul 2026 10:03 p.m. PST |
@Kevin C thanks very much! 😎 @robertpiepenbrink and @Dave Jackson Located in central Maine, Plethora is a fictional town with a storied and dynamic history stretching over centuries @Marcus Brutus
in fact there is more than 400 figures ans for actual standard antic wargame rule (AdlG, FoG, Meg,…) it is plethoric… regarding the acceptability of the sense of "plethora" meaning "plenty," it does indeed appear that M-W, the Oxford American, and the American Heritage dictionaries all list this definition. However, the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2001) and—more importantly—the Webster's New World College Dictionary (2018) do not. And the latter is the official reference dictionary for the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and United Press International. If there were any doubt about the consensus, the latest edition of the New York Times Manual of Style and Usage (2015) states: "'plethora' means not just a lot but also an excess, too much, or too many." Even Jeremy Butterfield, editor of the highly permissive fourth edition of Fowler's Modern English Usage (2015), expresses the view that—due to the objections surrounding it and the risk of misinterpretation ("excess" versus "plenty")—it might be advisable to choose a word other than "plethora" if "plenty" is what you actually mean. As for contemporary prescriptivists, the most prominent among them, Bryan A. Garner, maintains in the fourth edition of Garner's Modern English Usage (2016) that using "plethora" to mean "plenty" is "widely avoided"—indeed, an "unfortunate debasement of meaning." I can appreciate the argument that the controversial sense of "plethora" has gained significant ground and might soon receive the imprimatur of publications and prescriptivists. But that day has not yet arrived, I believe. |
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