Spoiler P4X for Squish, other U.K fans
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Originally posted by Hypatia:
[b]In P4X they implie that Xev cannot read, but in Supernova she remembers learning to read “are you comfortable daa-hling?”. What is that all about? [/b]
The phrase “almost a perfect reading” or whatever it was, did not appear to be a literal “reading” from written word; merely a verbal repetition of a phrase that the wife bank wanted candidates to know in order to be acceptible.
P4X Spoiler…? …. :
When Kai got the newspaper out of the machine, he was not able to read what it said until the kid on the street read a “sample” for him. Apparently Kai was able to interpret the language from comparison to the auditory “reading” and was then able to read. I assume Kai could already read, but not in Earth English with a Roman alphabet. Stan is seen to be ignorant of the same written language, yet he must have been able to read in the light universe in order to do the work assigned to him as a security guard. At the cluster or on Astral B, the language may have been english, but not written the same way.
“The Rock” Spoiler:
Interesting to note that Kai does another bit of “sampling” with the piano before he plays the BrunnenG fight song with the Newfoundland bar band. This bit really entertained me because it reinforced that the Beans DO consider intellectual aspects of Kai while making us laugh.
-Jace