Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 43 | If I set the machine to, say, View more quotes about language">Language A and spoke Gorean into it, it would, after a fraction of a second, emit a succession of noises, which was the translation of my Gorean sentences into A. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 40 | One of the most interesting was the Translator, which could be set for various languages. |
| 3 | 41 | Whereas there was a main common tongue on Gor, with apparently several related dialects or sublanguages, some of the Gorean languages bore in sound little resemblance to anything I had heard before, at least as languages; they resembled rather the cries of birds and the growls of animals; they were sounds I knew could not have been produced by a human throat. |
| 3 | 42 | Although the machines could be set for various languages, one term of the translation symmetry, at least in the machines I saw, was always Gorean. |
| 3 | 43 | If I set the machine to, say, Language A and spoke Gorean into it, it would, after a fraction of a second, emit a succession of noises, which was the translation of my Gorean sentences into A. |
| 3 | 44 | On the other hand, a new succession of noises in A would be received by the machine and emitted as a message in Gorean. |
| 3 | 45 | My father, to my delight, had taped one of these translation devices with English, and accordingly it was a most useful tool in working out equivalent phrases. |
| 3 | 46 | Also, of course, he and Torm worked intensively with me. |
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One of the most interesting was the Translator, which could be set for various languages.
Whereas there was a main common tongue on Gor, with apparently several related dialects or sublanguages, some of the Gorean languages bore in sound little resemblance to anything I had heard before, at least as languages; they resembled rather the cries of birds and the growls of animals; they were sounds I knew could not have been produced by a human throat.
Although the machines could be set for various languages, one term of the translation symmetry, at least in the machines I saw, was always Gorean.
If I set the machine to, say, Language A and spoke Gorean into it, it would, after a fraction of a second, emit a succession of noises, which was the translation of my Gorean sentences into A.
On the other hand, a new succession of noises in A would be received by the machine and emitted as a message in Gorean.
My father, to my delight, had taped one of these translation devices with English, and accordingly it was a most useful tool in working out equivalent phrases.
Also, of course, he and Torm worked intensively with me.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)