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This particular ship's name (Just Read The Instructions) is deliciously punny, given that "read" might be present or past tense. So is the ship's AI saying that
by greglindahl 8y ago
This particular ship's name (Just Read The Instructions) is deliciously punny, given that "read" might be present or past tense. So is the ship's AI saying that it just finished reading the instructions for the first time and what-could-possibly-go-wrong?
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- solipsism 8y agoThat's not a pun. That's just an ambiguous word. And it's only ambiguous for a person reading the written form. There's no indication in the book that the name is considered ambiguous by any characters.