Talk:Kudos

message: This is a personally inconvenient moment at which to really launch this personal project (which it is to be hoped will not be perceived as any thing like a crusade), direct tho I expect it to be. ( Nevertheless, it will greatly help me avoid confusion in some painstaking tasks if I edit in "place" rather than essentially complete a complex contribution in a private mock-up of a corner of the site, and then struggle to smoothly transfer the finished product into the site.The Dab'n called for is in many respects unlike most others; my working hypothesis is that the Greek term is clearly Wikt:foremost without being WP:primary  primary. (Completion will be delayed for a few hours.)--JerzyA (talk) 17:42 & 21:31, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:   Reorg of Dab-handling discussion 

message: Why was the entry added on 23:17, 1 Feb 2005 deleted? Here is the text (so you dont have to use the history):
: * A points system in the video game Metropolis Street Racer and its sequels Project Gotham Racing and Project Gotham Racing 2, whereby one accrues points by outstanding driving, including performing powerslides, overtaking, and "getting a good line around a corner".
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<Br>
: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)
thread_title:  [Deletion of bullet-pointed entry] 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text:    Hear, Hear!! (Except for the mildly apologetic  tone.) The 'pedia/dict distinction is crucial, yet crucially flexible, IthisWPian'sSoberOpinion.--JerzyA (talk) 15:31 & :36, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
hijkdsedgsugfeir ery yjao  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.3.132.116 (talk) 23:14, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Selectively struck thru by colleague(s) among SCfD&MWaPR--JerzyA (talk) 15:31, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dilemma 

message: hmm... I just want to add to this discussion about kudos.  I and my friends use it as a non-count word...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mechimapoi (talk • contribs) 19:53, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  ([[non-count word]]) 

message: Add IPA, please. ~~helix84 01:43, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Merriam Webster (and I, coincidentally) prefer 'kü-"däs Silarius 20:15, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  IPA 

message: 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)
thread_title:  |Master| 

message: 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)
thread_title:  QDOS 

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

message: in the article it says
 One can give another either none, one, or two kudos for praise of another's blog.
which sounds like an arbitrary rule used in some specific blog system, and yet it is written in a way that sounds like it is supposed to be the absolute truth for any situation, could someone please clarify this? --TiagoTiago (talk) 12:15, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  this part seems to be reffering to a specific situation 

message: Surely "kudos" is a non-count, rather than singular, noun? If it were singular, it would have a plural form (in English, not necessarily the original Greek plural). I should be able to talk about one kudos, another kudos, this kudos and that kudos, two kudoses, many kudoses, etc. The example in the article uses "much kudos", and the quantifier "much" applies to non-count nouns, not to singular nouns. Some nouns can have both roles -- singular and non-count -- but I'm not aware of a truly singular role for "kudos". Surely it is like the nouns "fame" and "renown", and acts only as non-count.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.107.226.59 (talk) 2:14, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: this is a completely separate issue from the whole "kudos"-mistaken-for-a-plural issue. Mooncow (talk) 00:39, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Singular? 

message: Collins(1994): [kju:dos]  acclaim, glory, or prestige
  LEO ( http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&search=kudos ): also sounds like [kju:dos]
Wda (talk) 05:55, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [kJu:dos]