Comments on: p. 180 (Chapter 6)

By: Ray Radlein

Ray Radlein — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:44:07 +0000

On the other hand, given the current progress of language, there is next to no chance whatsoever that “all right” won’t have finished its collapse into one word (like “all most,” “all together,” “all ways,” “all though,” “all mighty,” “all right,” “all ready,” and even “all one,” and “all (though) be it”) by whatever century it is that Galaxion takes place in again, given that it arguably has at least achieved parity with the longer form even now.

By: Stewart

Stewart — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:24:02 +0000

Extra points for saying “All right” instead of “Alright.”

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:22:50 +0000

Well, we don’t know what the Myradi look like yet, and Jax made first contact with them, so who knows? Maybe your mental image will turn out to be prophetic. Not suggesting either way, mind you!

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:33:43 +0000

Is it wrong that whenever I hear the name 'Jax Augustus' my first mental image is of a giant green Han Solo rabbit? Cause that would be awesome.

By: Prestwick

Prestwick — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:58:42 +0000

“But Jax Augustus said…hey! Are you listening to me?! Come back here!”

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:37:47 +0000

Nicely defused for the moment.

By: Quieteyes

Quieteyes — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:43:34 +0000

I’m guessing Carl will be the translator since it’s a safe bet none of the Orehu know English (no real need to learn it unless someone happens to like languages).

Ooo, interesting thought. It just occurred to me that English might be a good code language in the same way Navajo was for the Americans in WWII. Of course, this is dependent upon the Rautani not knowing it.

BTW, I checked and all of the Orehu statements in the background are spelled correctly.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:04:33 +0000

Yes, much embarrassment here as one of your proof readers – and an English degree to boot! Sorry!

By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:45:19 +0000

IP may be military, but TerSA is not. Vessa, along with the rest of the regular crew of the Galaxion, works for TerSA and has no military rank. The reason the cast page doesn’t mention a lot of ranks is because very few of them have one.

By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:14:52 +0000

Argh! How did I mess that up? How did it slip past my proofreaders? Well, much as it pains me to leave a spelling mistake in place, I’ll follow my own rule of saving all corrections for the printed version (ETA: April 2011).

Once again, thanks everyone for pointing it out. It would be worse to be embarrassed by something like that in print!