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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 language it presents the original input as a View more quotes about portion">portion of the new output. |
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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. |