Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 4 | 150 | He had had an accent, of View more quotes about course">course. |
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Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 4 | 147 | I realized then, only fully comprehending it for the first time, one takes such things so for granted, that the voice which had addressed me had done so in my own language. |
| 4 | 148 | Other doors opened, farther down the hall, behind me. |
| 4 | 149 | Patterns of light moved about on the stones, the consequence, I suppose, of the movements of lanterns. |
| 4 | 150 | He had had an accent, of course. |
| 4 | 151 | Whereas it is surely possible to speak a language which one has not learned in one's childhood without an accent, it is, as one might suppose, unusual. |
| 4 | 152 | One's speech generally tends to retain a foreign flavor. |
| 4 | 153 | Sometimes that the tongue one speaks is not native to one is revealed by so little as an occasional slip in pronunciation, say, the shifting treatment of a consonant, perhaps under conditions of stress, such as anger, or fear. |
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I realized then, only fully comprehending it for the first time, one takes such things so for granted, that the voice which had addressed me had done so in my own language.
Other doors opened, farther down the hall, behind me.
Patterns of light moved about on the stones, the consequence, I suppose, of the movements of lanterns.
He had had an accent, of course.
Whereas it is surely possible to speak a language which one has not learned in one's childhood without an accent, it is, as one might suppose, unusual.
One's speech generally tends to retain a foreign flavor.
Sometimes that the tongue one speaks is not native to one is revealed by so little as an occasional slip in pronunciation, say, the shifting treatment of a consonant, perhaps under conditions of stress, such as anger, or fear.
- (Witness of Gor)