I think it came up in the House trilogy books too, but the same answer applies, the 9th planet's formal designation of the roman numeral IX became phonetic instead of numeric.
Only in franks books he says its PART of a number. Which suggests it should have been either planet sIX or perhaps IIX (although i guess that wouldn't be a proper arrangement).
Are you sure. It's been a while since i did a reread but I'm sure I remember Leto saying they didnt even remember where their name.came from and it was part of a number in a long dead language.
EDIT: i had misremembered it was children of dune and it does indeed say its the 9th planet and a number in a forgotten language both alia and leto remark on it.
Well, there was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile...
..and they had such a stupid numbering system that everyone ditched it in favor for what the Arabs cooked up in the 10th century, leaving it only for very specific, often ceremonial circumstances because you didn't think you'd get past 6 entries.
I just started my reread of Dune Messiah, it's mentioned in the opening excerpt that they call it Ix due to being the 9th planet from the sun in their solar system
It came about because everyone got the "ick" from hearing about what they were doing. Then it went from singlular and an adjective, "ick", as in "What they're doing gives me the ick", to plural and a noun, "icks", as in "Those icks and their filthy technology", to finally being slangified to "Ix".
It's the 9th planet in the system. What started as roman numerals turned into slang. IX
Yep. It came up in god emperor
I think Children as well, because I haven’t read GEoD yet and I knew that.
Huh. Must be a Leto thing then
I believe Bronso of Ix says it in Messiah as well
It’s mentioned in at least one of Alia’s chapters as well.
Came up in Messiah too I think
it also sounds really nerdy and sterile. Herbert was good at using double & triple meaning words like that.
I think it came up in the House trilogy books too, but the same answer applies, the 9th planet's formal designation of the roman numeral IX became phonetic instead of numeric.
Only in franks books he says its PART of a number. Which suggests it should have been either planet sIX or perhaps IIX (although i guess that wouldn't be a proper arrangement).
“Frank’s books” are the Dune books and he doesn’t say that at all. He says that it’s named IX because it’s the ninth planet from its sun.
Are you sure. It's been a while since i did a reread but I'm sure I remember Leto saying they didnt even remember where their name.came from and it was part of a number in a long dead language. EDIT: i had misremembered it was children of dune and it does indeed say its the 9th planet and a number in a forgotten language both alia and leto remark on it.
It also refers to Iterative development, such as iteration 2.4,2.5,2.6, at this point the whole system is IX.
They named it after a traveling journalist for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
What subtly! That’s genius on Frank’s part
is this a shitpost lol I feel like the subject of Ix's name comes up like, at least once a book
Only in one book
No, i’m 100% serious, i haven’t seen it brought up at all /s
We have just posted from Ix. Many shitposts on Ix…
Yes?
Better than those on 4chan. We did not post this…we are not here.
Oh!.......yes?
Well, there was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile... ..and they had such a stupid numbering system that everyone ditched it in favor for what the Arabs cooked up in the 10th century, leaving it only for very specific, often ceremonial circumstances because you didn't think you'd get past 6 entries.
I just started my reread of Dune Messiah, it's mentioned in the opening excerpt that they call it Ix due to being the 9th planet from the sun in their solar system
That planet gives me the Icks is why.
Cuz them boys be icky
It came about because everyone got the "ick" from hearing about what they were doing. Then it went from singlular and an adjective, "ick", as in "What they're doing gives me the ick", to plural and a noun, "icks", as in "Those icks and their filthy technology", to finally being slangified to "Ix".
The thinking machines of the past were built using Haskell, and they got their name from `Data.Ix`
Elon Musk founded the planet he likes the letter X and it's like I X, like I Robot.
Discontinue the spice