Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 599 | When the machine encounters a phoneme or phonemic combination which is not correlated with a phoneme or phoneme combination in the new View more quotes about language">language it presents the original input as a portion of the new output. |
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Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 596 | To be sure, a linguistic talent of no mean degree is required to design and program such a device. |
| 1 | 597 | We did hear one Gorean word in the translation. |
| 1 | 598 | That was the name 'Samos'. |
| 1 | 599 | When the machine encounters a phoneme or phonemic combination which is not correlated with a phoneme or phoneme combination in the new language it presents the original input as a portion of the new output. |
| 1 | 600 | For example, if one were to utter nonsense syllables into the device the same nonsense syllables, unless an accident or a coincidence occurred, would be played back. |
| 1 | 601 | The creatures, then, heard the name of Samos. |
| 1 | 602 | Whether they could pronounce it or not, or how close they could come to pronounce it, would depend on the sound and on the capacity of their own vocal apparatus. |
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To be sure, a linguistic talent of no mean degree is required to design and program such a device.
We did hear one Gorean word in the translation.
That was the name 'Samos'.
When the machine encounters a phoneme or phonemic combination which is not correlated with a phoneme or phoneme combination in the new language it presents the original input as a portion of the new output.
For example, if one were to utter nonsense syllables into the device the same nonsense syllables, unless an accident or a coincidence occurred, would be played back.
The creatures, then, heard the name of Samos.
Whether they could pronounce it or not, or how close they could come to pronounce it, would depend on the sound and on the capacity of their own vocal apparatus.
- (Savages of Gor)