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Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor (Individual Quote)

I supposed Gorean, like most complex languages, may have borrowed from many tongues. - (Smugglers of Gor, Chapter 50, Sentence #659)
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50 659 I View more quotes about supposed">supposed Gorean, like most complex languages, may have borrowed from many tongues.

Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor (Context Quote)

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50 656 "That is a well-known town on the Laurius to the south," said a girl.
50 657 "Perhaps it is a coincidence," I said, though I doubted that.
50 658 Certainly I had found occasional words in Gorean which were words also in my native language, or very similar to such words, perhaps influenced by them or derived from them.
50 659 I supposed Gorean, like most complex languages, may have borrowed from many tongues.
50 660 Certainly it seemed to me that Goreans, or most of them, were clearly human, and, doubtless, directly or indirectly, owed their origin to my native world, Earth.
50 661 Perhaps, I thought, the clue to the mystery might lie in the distant, formidable Sardar Mountains, of which the legendary or fabled Priest-Kings were supposedly denizens.
50 662 In any event, much in these matters was obscure to me.
"That is a well-known town on the Laurius to the south," said a girl. "Perhaps it is a coincidence," I said, though I doubted that. Certainly I had found occasional words in Gorean which were words also in my native language, or very similar to such words, perhaps influenced by them or derived from them. I supposed Gorean, like most complex languages, may have borrowed from many tongues. Certainly it seemed to me that Goreans, or most of them, were clearly human, and, doubtless, directly or indirectly, owed their origin to my native world, Earth. Perhaps, I thought, the clue to the mystery might lie in the distant, formidable Sardar Mountains, of which the legendary or fabled Priest-Kings were supposedly denizens. In any event, much in these matters was obscure to me. - (Smugglers of Gor)