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Site See Amazon.com information Image If image fails to load, try this link. Book Glory Road Imprint Avon Books, 1964 Year 1993 Author/Editor/Director Heinlein, Robert A. Notes Star taught Oscar the Nevian language, which is "rich in profanity and words for making love". There is another language in the book that is given no official name, but is the "pidgin language with thousands of years of imports and changes and is uninflected, positional, and flat." The language is simply referred to as "The Language of Center", which is the base of operations for the Empire of the Twenty Universes. A/V No Book Yes Serial No Comic No Review Although the actual language itself is never laid out in the story, the English approximations are listed. The language seems to be incredibly simple and is mostly used as a starting point for people who do not have command of anything more than the language(s) of their planet of origin. Some sample text: "Self." Used to tell someone else that you'd like your turn to speak. "Speak." Used to tell someone that's requested the turn to speak that they may continue. "Is-was sword destroy construct guard Egg?" ("Is this sword now present the direct successor in space-time sequential change, aside from theoretical anomalies involved in between-universe transitions, of the sword used to kill the Never-Born?") According to the book: "The double tense of the verb, present-past, stipulates and brushes aside the concept that identity is a meaningless abstraction-is this the sword you actually used, in the everyday meaning, and don't kid me, soldier, I'm no child." Reviewer Josh Munce Rating 10 Conlang Nevian, Center Conlang Author Heinlein, Robert A. Glossary No No Sample No Large Corpus No Submitted By David Solly Date Submitted Friday, December 31, 1999 Updated By Josh Munce Date Edited Tuesday, December 24, 2002 Description Of Update Added a review and updated information on the two languages, "Nevian" and "Center". Date To Headline Tuesday, December 24, 2002 < Gattaca  Glory Road  Gold At Starbow's End >
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