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By Dr. Verbos Metikulos

KUDOS:  Educational initiative being what it is, not many study Greek any more.  Of course, this is a shame.  I'm an old Star Trek fan partly because Captain Jean-Luc Picard often relaxed in his quarters by reading the classics - the real classics - in the original Greek.  There was a man with real class.

In my spare time at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, I can't read the sports pages any more.  So many reporters write, "Kudos go to Kent Wells for his brilliance on the playing field."  Anyone with a classical education knows that kudos is singular, like pathos.  The sentence should read, "Kudos goes to..."  Kudos means prestige not prestiges, praise not praises.

Captain Picard would have gotten it right.

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