Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 13 | 545 | After a View more quotes about brief">brief period of readjustment we would have become again at ease in it. |
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Book 14. (7 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 13 | 542 | Surprisingly, perhaps, we had spoken together in Gorean without really considering the matter. |
| 13 | 543 | I do not think this was simply because we feared to irritate or offend passing Goreans, who tend to view languages other than their own as barbarous, or because slaves are expected to use a speech intelligible to their masters, but because, for most practical purposes, Gorean had become our language. |
| 13 | 544 | I am sure, however, we could have conversed readily in English, had we so chosen. |
| 13 | 545 | After a brief period of readjustment we would have become again at ease in it. |
| 13 | 546 | "I was white silk on Earth," she said. |
| 13 | 547 | "I did not know that," I said. |
| 13 | 548 | "It is scarcely the sort of thing a girl publicly discusses on Earth," she said. |
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Surprisingly, perhaps, we had spoken together in Gorean without really considering the matter.
I do not think this was simply because we feared to irritate or offend passing Goreans, who tend to view languages other than their own as barbarous, or because slaves are expected to use a speech intelligible to their masters, but because, for most practical purposes, Gorean had become our language.
I am sure, however, we could have conversed readily in English, had we so chosen.
After a brief period of readjustment we would have become again at ease in it.
"I was white silk on Earth," she said.
"I did not know that," I said.
"It is scarcely the sort of thing a girl publicly discusses on Earth," she said.
- (Fighting Slave of Gor)