Undeniably he gained much kudos for solving several problems in which his success was really due to a half-contemptuous hint from Poirot. Lawrence joined in occasionally with a few observations and speculations, his discovery giving him kudos previously not experienced. There is a furious debate going on in Dweller society even as we speak - and probably for some time to come, Dwellers being, well, Dwellers -regarding to what extent the undying admiration of every even vaguely sentient species in the rest of the galaxy and possibly beyond could possibly constitute a general increase in the background kudos level for all Dwellers, and therefore a valid reason for throwing open their galactic transport system to all. He would take on clients to increase his kudos, the level of which would increase proportionally the more powerful were the people he tailored for, so that somebody in a position of civil power would constitute a favoured client, even if that position of power had come about through a lottery, some arcanely complicated rota system or plain old coercive voting - jobs like that of City Administrator were subject to all those regimes and more, depending on the band or zone concerned, or just which city was involved.Īs long as there was not the faintest shadow of a suspicion he was playing some weird back-game, deliberately pursuing kudos by pretending not to, so long as his lack of interest in it was seen as being the unaffected carelessness of a kind of wise naif, he was kudos-rich, though in a curiously unenviable way.ĭreadnought took them as far as Munueyn, a Ruined City fallen amongst the dark, thick gases of the lower atmosphere where slow coils of turbulence roiled past like the heavy, lascivious licks of an almighty planetary tongue, a place all spires and spindles, near-deserted, long unfashionable, a one-time Storm-Centre now too far from anything to be of much interest to anybody, a place that might have garnered kudos for itself had it been near a war zone, but could hope for almost none at all because it was within one.Īround them, a thousand Dwellers hooted and roared and laughed, threw food, made spoken kudos bets that they would later deny or inflate accordingly, and traded insults. Sourcesġ.I suspect any vicarious effect on my kudos level will be too small to measure. īut in recent years it started happening elsewhere, and Melbourne’s cultural kudos has begun to be seriously challenged. I got a lot of kudos recently for finishing the Tokyo Marathon, my first long race. Īnd what unedifying boasting and envy will there be in the school playground, where personal kudos is measured by proximity to football? Kudos are due to ProPublica for ferreting out the story of the unseemly and dishonest Democratic politicking. The OED lists kudized as a derivative verb, but we find only one instance of the word in action, in the Harvard Crimson (see below). In searches covering edited news publications, the ratio is closer to even, though “many kudos” has the edge. Yet because it sounds plural, many writers treat it as such. On the web, “many kudos” is about three times as common as “much kudos,” suggesting that it is usually treated as a plural noun instead of a mass noun.
Like similar Greek-derived words ending in –os-for example, pathos and chaos- kudos was originally a singular mass noun. To give kudos to someone is to give credit and praise for an achievement. Borrowed from ancient Greek, the English word was originally British university slang for praise or renown, 1 and that’s roughly what it means today.
The use of kudos in English began in the early 19th century.
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