Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 14 | 1125 | This View more quotes about arrangement">arrangement is doubtless to be expected, for it reflects a common grammatical feature of the spoken languages of the red savages. |
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Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 14 | 1122 | I later learned the sign for knife alone would suffice for this tribe. |
| 14 | 1123 | In the compound sign fleer presumably occurs as a modifier in virtue of the bird's coloration. |
| 14 | 1124 | Adjectives in sign commonly, though not always, follow the noun, so to speak. |
| 14 | 1125 | This arrangement is doubtless to be expected, for it reflects a common grammatical feature of the spoken languages of the red savages. |
| 14 | 1126 | The word 'mazasapa', for example, literally means 'black metal'. |
| 14 | 1127 | 'Maza' is the word for 'metal' and 'sapa' is the word for 'black'. |
| 14 | 1128 | We would translate the expression, of course, as 'iron'. |
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I later learned the sign for knife alone would suffice for this tribe.
In the compound sign fleer presumably occurs as a modifier in virtue of the bird's coloration.
Adjectives in sign commonly, though not always, follow the noun, so to speak.
This arrangement is doubtless to be expected, for it reflects a common grammatical feature of the spoken languages of the red savages.
The word 'mazasapa', for example, literally means 'black metal'.
'Maza' is the word for 'metal' and 'sapa' is the word for 'black'.
We would translate the expression, of course, as 'iron'.
- (Savages of Gor)