Re: QX

I'm reading the last of them now (Masters Of the Vortex). I had just
assumed 
that they were just an equivalent to OK, just used to show some
difference 
in the language (another example being "Clear Ether" and usage of words
like 
"Flit" and so on) they do give the books a stragely, not-written-today
feel, 
which I think kinda works though I have never attempted to copy in my
own 
writing (maybe I should).

Never before thought of Q and X being similar to O and K before, that's 
quite clever...

Richard

>Getting back to Smith, I always thought that QX was a sneaky way of
>showing how language evolves over time. Kim Kinnison and co. use it
>where we'd use OK, and comparing the letters made me think that this
>was an unmentioned case of a gradual slide from one to the other
>between now and whenever the stories were set. Don't think it had
>anything to do with the use of Q in radio codes, except very
>peripherally.
>
>Phil
>----
>"Sic Transit Gloria Barramundi"
>    (Or, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!)
>    -- not Douglas Adams, but me: Phil Atcliffe
>			  (Phillip.Atcliffe@uwe.ac.uk)

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