Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 34 | She shook her head vigorously, No. |
| 7 | 35 | Still wondering if she were of High caste, and smiling to myself, I continued down the passageway. |
| 7 | 36 | Both of the girls had in their way been beautiful but I found Vika superior to both. |
| 7 | 37 | My Chamber Slave's accent had been pure High caste Gorean though I could not place the city. |
| 7 | 38 | Probably her caste had been that of the Builders or Physicians, for had her people been Scribes I would have expected a greater subtlety of inflections, the use of less common grammatical cases; and had her people been of the Warriors I would have expected a blunter speech, rather belligerently simple, expressed in great reliance on the indicative mood and, habitually, a rather arrogant refusal to venture beyond the most straightforward of sentence structures. |
| 7 | 39 | On the other hand these generalizations are imperfect, for Gorean speech is no less complex than that of any of the great natural language communities of the Earth nor are its speakers any the less diverse. |
| 7 | 40 | It is, incidentally, a beautiful language; it can be as subtle as Greek; as direct as Latin; as expressive as Russian; as rich as English; as forceful as German. |
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She shook her head vigorously, No.
Still wondering if she were of High caste, and smiling to myself, I continued down the passageway.
Both of the girls had in their way been beautiful but I found Vika superior to both.
My Chamber Slave's accent had been pure High caste Gorean though I could not place the city.
Probably her caste had been that of the Builders or Physicians, for had her people been Scribes I would have expected a greater subtlety of inflections, the use of less common grammatical cases; and had her people been of the Warriors I would have expected a blunter speech, rather belligerently simple, expressed in great reliance on the indicative mood and, habitually, a rather arrogant refusal to venture beyond the most straightforward of sentence structures.
On the other hand these generalizations are imperfect, for Gorean speech is no less complex than that of any of the great natural language communities of the Earth nor are its speakers any the less diverse.
It is, incidentally, a beautiful language; it can be as subtle as Greek; as direct as Latin; as expressive as Russian; as rich as English; as forceful as German.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )