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Lois, thank you for your humor. You are without doubt a great wordsmith and storyteller but I just had to thank you for your humor as well. It's not uncommon for me to laugh out loud when going through your books the first time or two and I have to say that it brings so much to the stories. It's the little touches like the turkey buzzards comment that are made by your characters that make all the pain worthwhile. Anyway, thanks!
What does cod-Europe mean? (And you're missing the final close paren in your reply, unless your emoji was intended to be just two characters. I don't know if you're allowed to edit on this board.)
@ Kalen --
It's a humorous back-formation from "cod-Cockney", which is a descriptor of folks trying to do Cockney who aren't actually native to it. (Also see: mockney.)
And the emoji is being made to double as the close-quote, also for humorous effect. And efficiency. (Though it may be displaying as something other than a colon, a hyphen, and a close-quote on your end, standing for eyes, nose, and mouth, so one never knows.)
Ta, L.
I'd never heard this construct before, or at least I don't remember it! It did take a bit of internet searching to find some explanation, and in my search, I saw a reference to cod-Russian accents. I finally found this: http://www.word-detective.com/2008/04...
And I did see the whole emoji, but did not recognize it as humor. I frequently forget the final close paren after such an emoji and it just looks like a mistake to me when I finally notice it in my own writing!
THANKS!
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Jun 06, 2019 09:33AM
Lois, thank you for your humor. You are without doubt a great wordsmith and storyteller but I just had to thank you for your humor as well. It's not uncommon for me to laugh out loud when going through your books the first time or two and I have to say that it brings so much to the stories. It's the little touches like the turkey buzzards comment that are made by your characters that make all the pain worthwhile. Anyway, thanks!
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What does cod-Europe mean? (And you're missing the final close paren in your reply, unless your emoji was intended to be just two characters. I don't know if you're allowed to edit on this board.)
@ Kalen --It's a humorous back-formation from "cod-Cockney", which is a descriptor of folks trying to do Cockney who aren't actually native to it. (Also see: mockney.)
And the emoji is being made to double as the close-quote, also for humorous effect. And efficiency. (Though it may be displaying as something other than a colon, a hyphen, and a close-quote on your end, standing for eyes, nose, and mouth, so one never knows.)
Ta, L.
I'd never heard this construct before, or at least I don't remember it! It did take a bit of internet searching to find some explanation, and in my search, I saw a reference to cod-Russian accents. I finally found this: http://www.word-detective.com/2008/04...And I did see the whole emoji, but did not recognize it as humor. I frequently forget the final close paren after such an emoji and it just looks like a mistake to me when I finally notice it in my own writing!
THANKS!
