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Originally Posted by Goshzilla
Did the author confuse a "Rolodex" with a Codex?
This reminds me of a controversy that stemmed around the use of several hyphens in the movie title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Alot of people thought there were too many hyphens in the title.
If you remove the first hyphen, it means there are 40 year-old virgins
remove the second hyphen it it makes it seem like 40 years there is an old virgin.
I wonder if they had to hire an entire english department to get the title right, because I remember reading some of the letters written in Roger Ebert column about the title and it was pretty funny.
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As I've seen it often written in French, the word codex is used in a figurative sense as a repository of ancient laws, or codes. When you think of ancient, you think of scrolls. Probably this author tried to use it this way. The proper meaning of codex is identical from French to English.