• spider
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    8 days ago

    It may have been inspired by “x” representing an unknown variable like you would see in a math equation, so in that context, it kind of makes sense.

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      8 days ago

      Yeah I understand why x looks good on paper. As soon as you try to use in in spoken dialog the flaws become apparent. It’s clearly not going to work.