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. But the accent and the idiom- The accent comes from the
Senior himself, reinforced by his mother's speech, and nailed down by the fact
that Athene speaks that accent and idiom and won't speak English any other way.
The same applies to Minerva, since she learned it when she was still a computer.
But not all of us speak English with equal ease. You know Tamara?"
"Not as well as I would like to."
"She is probably the most loving and most lovable person on the planet. But
she is no linguist. She learned English when she was past two hundred; I think
she will always speak broken English... even though she speaks it every day.
Does that explain the odd fact that a dead language is being spoken at a family
dinner party on a planet around a star far distant from
Old Home Terra?"
"Well- It explains it. It does not satisfy me. Uh, Justin, I have a feeling
that any objection I can raise will be answered ... but I won't be convinced."
"That's reasonable. Why not wait awhile? Presently, without pushing it, the
facts that you find hard to accept will fall into place."
So we changed the subject. Hazel said, "Dear one, I didn't tell you why I
had to run an errand... or why I was late. Justin, have you ever been held up at
the downstream teleport?"
'Too often. I hope someone builds a competing service soon. I would raise
the capital and mount it myself, if I weren't so comfortably lazy
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