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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9835692" data-attributes="member: 6790260">That would be a correct usage, if we presume a dropped &quot;I&quot; and perhaps an implied &quot;shall/will&quot;. E.g. it's not uncommon for someone to say, &quot;See you later/soon&quot;, where the &quot;I will&quot; is just dropped. &quot;See thee later&quot; would naturally lend itself to simplification: our English-speaking ancestors loved to slur their words together and simplify even the most seemingly insignificant excess effort. E.g. how &quot;a/an&quot; evolved out of the Old English word for &quot;one&quot;--instead of saying &quot;an scip&quot;, &quot;one ship&quot;, our ancestors would say &quot;a scip&quot;, &quot;a ship&quot;. But that would slur together TOO much in front of a vowel, so they kept the &quot;an&quot; form there, hence why you use &quot;an&quot; before words that start with vowel-like sounds.&quot;An&quot; as a number evolved into &quot;one&quot;, probably by way of something like &quot;awn&quot; and/or &quot;own&quot;, I'm sure a proper linguist could tell you how that happened. But the word itself stuck around as a convenient way for referring to any thing meeting some description--and thus creating the indefinite article in English. (Old English did not have an indefinite article at all, and indeed even a definite article is a bit dubious from what I'm reading--instead, it used declension to serve that function, but as English slowly shed its case system, something else had to fill in the gap, giving rise to &quot;a/an&quot; and &quot;the&quot; as our articles, indefinite and definite respectively.)&quot;I will see thee later&quot; =&gt; &quot;I'll see thee later&quot; =&gt; &quot;See thee&quot; =&gt; &quot;Sithee&quot;. Compare the evolution of &quot;forecastle&quot; to &quot;fo'c'sle&quot;, pronounced &quot;fox-ull&quot;.That <a href="https://www.romancerehab.com/blog/cozy-but-spicy-romance-novels-thatll-heat-up-your-weekend" target="_blank">does not</a> seem <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/228188.Cozy_Fantasy_Romance_with_Spice" target="_blank">to be</a> the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFaction/posts/3808963072746192/" target="_blank">only</a> way <a href="https://people.com/cozy-spicy-romance-novels-cozyverse-exclusive-11845649" target="_blank">people</a> are <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/RomanceBooks/comments/18h718r/high_spice_low_stress_cozy/" target="_blank">actually</a> using this term. Or, at the very least, there is significant difference of opinion, and at least some published periodicals, ordinary people, and even (seemingly!) publishers and reviewers are sometimes using the word exactly as I used it: lower-stakes, community focus, Further, folks <a href="https://reactormag.com/coming-to-terms-with-cozy-fiction/" target="_blank">definitely</a> are <a href="https://www.campfirewriting.com/codex/cozyFiction" target="_blank">using</a> the phrase &quot;<a href="https://www.12news.com/article/life/books/reading-arizona/looking-for-your-next-cozy-fantasy-check-out-latest-romance-full-of-second-chances-magic-emily-krempholtz-violet-thistlewaite-is-not-a-villain-anymore/75-9820b90e-b58b-4e71-b5e6-aeeb4e681e44" target="_blank">cozy fantasy</a>&quot; to mean, explicitly, lower-stakes fantasy works. So it could be that, particularly in the context of &quot;romantasy&quot;, &quot;cozy romantasy&quot; may mean low-spice, low stakes, or both!I should think the primary reason there is the second word, crime. Crime necessarily invites higher stakes. &quot;Cozy&quot; crime is going to be relative to the original genre--and crime novels are notorious for large body counts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9835692, member: 6790260"] That would be a correct usage, if we presume a dropped "I" and perhaps an implied "shall/will". E.g. it's not uncommon for someone to say, "See you later/soon", where the "I will" is just dropped. "See thee later" would naturally lend itself to simplification: our English-speaking ancestors [I]loved[/I] to slur their words together and simplify even the most seemingly insignificant excess effort. E.g. how "a/an" evolved out of the Old English word for "one"--instead of saying "[I]an scip[/I]", "one ship", our ancestors would say "[I]a scip[/I]", "a ship". But that would slur together TOO much in front of a vowel, so they kept the "an" form there, hence why you use "an" before words that start with vowel-like sounds. "An" as a [I]number[/I] evolved into "one", probably by way of something like "awn" and/or "own", I'm sure a proper linguist could tell you how that happened. But the word itself stuck around as a convenient way for referring to any thing meeting some description--and thus creating the indefinite article in English. (Old English did not have an indefinite article at all, and indeed even a [I]definite[/I] article is a bit dubious from what I'm reading--instead, it used declension to serve that function, but as English slowly shed its case system, something else had to fill in the gap, giving rise to "a/an" and "the" as our articles, indefinite and definite respectively.) "I will see thee later" => "I'll see thee later" => "See thee" => "Sithee". Compare the evolution of "forecastle" to "fo'c'sle", pronounced "fox-ull". That [URL='https://www.romancerehab.com/blog/cozy-but-spicy-romance-novels-thatll-heat-up-your-weekend']does not[/URL] seem [URL='https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/228188.Cozy_Fantasy_Romance_with_Spice']to be[/URL] the [URL='https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFaction/posts/3808963072746192/']only[/URL] way [URL='https://people.com/cozy-spicy-romance-novels-cozyverse-exclusive-11845649']people[/URL] are [URL='https://www.reddit.com/r/RomanceBooks/comments/18h718r/high_spice_low_stress_cozy/']actually[/URL] using this term. Or, at the very least, there is significant difference of opinion, and at least some published periodicals, ordinary people, and even (seemingly!) publishers and reviewers are sometimes using the word exactly as I used it: lower-stakes, community focus, Further, folks [URL='https://reactormag.com/coming-to-terms-with-cozy-fiction/']definitely[/URL] are [URL='https://www.campfirewriting.com/codex/cozyFiction']using[/URL] the phrase "[URL='https://www.12news.com/article/life/books/reading-arizona/looking-for-your-next-cozy-fantasy-check-out-latest-romance-full-of-second-chances-magic-emily-krempholtz-violet-thistlewaite-is-not-a-villain-anymore/75-9820b90e-b58b-4e71-b5e6-aeeb4e681e44']cozy fantasy[/URL]" to mean, explicitly, lower-stakes fantasy works. So it could be that, particularly in the context of "romantasy", "cozy romantasy" may mean low-spice, low stakes, [I]or both![/I] I should think the primary reason there is the second word, crime. Crime necessarily invites higher stakes. "Cozy" crime is going to be relative to the original genre--and crime novels are notorious for large body counts. [/QUOTE]

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