Talk:Kudos

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Being greek, I assure that kudos is the singular. About the plural I'm not sure, but it is not kudoses, anyway.

If there is a plural form, it seems it would be "kudoi", at least in ancient Greek. Silarius 20:15, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
I think the plural form is just "Kudos" (as well as singular) --74.225.129.108 18:26, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Being a linguist, I can assure you all that "kudos" is functionally a plural. Let's remember that prescriptive standards are artificial, by definition; there's not a single person who speaks standard English as such, as everyone has deviations from it. Since the word entered the language by slang, I think we should be especially liberal in accepting whatever anyone happens to say on this matter. The fact that it used to be singular does not mean that it is today.Trwier 07:44, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

I know several people who adamantly insist that "kudo" is the singular, and "kudoses" is the plural, of something. "Kudos" is apparently incorrect whenever it appears, for them.

Comparison with the word "furniture" sends them into blustering rages.

Redirected to English plural where this point of view is discussed and dismissed. Ortolan88

I removed the phrase "So in fact kudos is plural" because it does not logically follow the much more reasonable quote from Merriam-Webster that it seemed to want to summarize; this quote explains why people use "kudos" as a plural, and "kudo" as a singular, but does not exclude using "kudos" as singular in any way. In fact, M-W has both a definition for "kudo" (with plural "kudos") and an entry for "kudos" (as a singular noun, with no plural).

In my experience, these words are pronounced 'kü-"däs (for the singular "kudos"), 'kü-"dO (for the singular "kudo"), and kü-"dOz (for the plural). Silarius 20:52, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

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Why was the entry added on 23:17, 1 Feb 2005 deleted? Here is the text (so you dont have to use the history):

Maybe this is not one of the "meaning" of Kudos but this information still deserves some place in the article... I'm adding it back (I did not write it in the first place, those lines are not mine), hoping someone will tell me more if he/she decides to delete it again. Muzzle

This seems like a fairly standard use of the word, well within the dictionary definition-- you are driving well in the game, so you get recognition. Instead of calling it a "point," or giving you a gold star, they call it a "kudos". As I mentioned below, the game designers and testers probably looked the word up themselves, or knew what it meant to begin with. A link to this entry from the game's entry seems sufficient. Silarius 20:15, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

There is also an entire video game based on the principle, a game actually called 'kudos' (www.kudosgame.com


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[edit] Dilemma

I have a bit of a dilemma: is this a disambiguation page or not? It differenciates various things, but doesn't lead to the appropriate articles per se. What do you say? --Dungo (talk) 20:11, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

  • I had the exact same thought when I was reading this article, I don't think it is one either. It's a little bit dictionary and a little bit disambig but not enough of either to deserve those labels. I'll take it off until someone feels differently. Vicarious 10:23, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Let met start by referring to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages). It mentions articles should not give dictionary definitions, but instead link to Wiktionary. That leaves very little extra information (university slang and usage in Times), considering the rest (links) would be better of as a DAB page. I say this should be turned into a proper DAB page, and the dictionary content should be removed, perhaps the extra things added to Wiktionary. (I'm not familiar with Wiktionary and what background info is appropriate there.) Retodon8 15:58, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
The origin information is interesting (to me...), and more thorough than is typical in a dictionary etymology entry. Some references would be good though. I'm pretty soft on encyclopedia entries for interesting words. Silarius 20:15, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] IPA

Add IPA, please. ~~helix84 01:43, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Merriam Webster (and I, coincidentally) prefer 'kü-"däs Silarius 20:15, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] |Master|

I came here looking for the web definition, supposedly it is greek for praise. To give kudos on myspace.com is to say "I feel for you man" If anyone could elaborate it would be appreciated.

I don't think it means (or, was intended to mean) anything different on myspace than it does in the dictionary. Web designers and game designers probably went to the trouble of looking it up themselves (as a former (thank God!) game designer and game tester, I assure you that this sort of thing gets reviewed in the testing process. Extensively.).
What a given user means by giving "kudos" in a myspace blog comment, I can't say. When I use it, I mean..."kudos." As in, "your blog entry deserves my recognition." "I feel for you, man" is within the definition (as a form of recognition), but it's too narrow to *be* the definition.
The meaning in Greek seems to be "prestige" or "renown". The plural would be "kudoi", but for all I know there may be no plural form, as it is an abstract concept (note that nobody says "renowns" or "prestiges" in English).
I have always thought of "kudos" as an exclamation, like saying "Cheers!" or "Huzzah!". Yes, I say "Huzzah." Silarius 19:27, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] QDOS

I've always heard QDOS stood for "Quick and Dirty Operating System". It was the OS Microsoft purchased and renamed as MS-DOS. Any source for the relation to kudos? Jope 00:20, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The use of the word as a singular noun, though, is discouraged

I removed the sentence "The use of the word as a singular noun, though, is discouraged".

(Discouraged by whom? There is no recognised authority which can encourage or discourage any English usage. Wikipedia is there to document what exists, not to tell people what to do.)


[edit] fagsTime Magazine

I removed the word "fags", seemingly used as a prefix, although more likely an omission of a space, from the reference to Time Magazine.

It seemed disparaging, xenophobic, non-sensical, and basically literal vandalism. Elvisfromtj 04:49, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

It was simple vandalism. Certainly not "xenophobic", but vandalism that did indeed need removing. violet/riga (t) 19:16, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Yes, I do so hate it when vandals omit their spaces. 66.157.150.78 (talk) 00:02, 30 January 2008 (UTC)