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Updated: June 20, 2025
When his eyes fell on Vann Shatrak, he brightened. "Are you," he asked, "the chief-slave of the chief Lord-Master of this ship?" Shatrak's face turned pink; the pink darkened to red. He used a word; it was a completely unprintable word. So, except for a few scattered pronouns, conjunctions and prepositions, were the next fifty words he used. The herald stiffened.
However, the fact remained that he had distinguished himself, and brought honour to the Fifth Form in general by taking seven wickets; and for this reason his comrades would have been content had he merely stood up and reeled off the list of prepositions which govern the accusative, or quoted selections from the multiplication table.
The verb to be, is expressed in Chayma by az. The possessive pronouns precede the substantive; upatay, in my house, properly my house in. All the prepositions and the negation pra are incorporated at the end, as in the Tamanac.
"Answer you must, when I ask you: every man, every gentleman, must answer in all honour for what he does." "Certainly, answer for what he does," said Harry. "For! Phoo! Come, none of your tricks upon prepositions to gain time I never knew you do the like you'll give me a worse opinion. I'm no schoolmaster, nor you a grammarian, I hope, to be equivocating on monosyllables." "Equivocate!
A pause; some only half-confident explanation, and enlargement upon the subject by the young man. The professor again: "H-u-u-m well now you may write no, you needn't just tell me the difference, in your opinion, between what are known as conjunctions and prepositions. Say what you please. We ask no odds of them. Be utterly free in your comment." More explanations by the young man.
It is a language of a very singular construction, having no plural except for pronouns, and not a single preposition in it: but the cases of nouns and pronouns are almost endless, all the words answering to our prepositions being put after the word, and forming a new case. Except these singularities, I find it an easy language.
Never can stand Ruskin. Too many prepositions. Tremendous English, no doubt, but not my style. Sort of thing a wholesale grocer's daughter might read to get refined. We can't afford to get refined." "But would you really marry a girl ...?" began Lewisham, with an unprecedented admiration for Dunkerley in his eyes. "Why not?" "On ?" Lewisham hesitated. "Forty pounds a year res. Whack! Yes."
Verbs were soon plain sailing at least, such active verbs as I could express by drawings; some adjectives were easy, but when it came to abstract nouns, to prepositions, and the sort of hackneyed figures of speech, by means of which so much is expressed on earth, it was like diving in cork-jackets.
Both these opposing philosophies, interesting as they are, result, in my opinion, from an undue attention to one sort of universals, namely the sort represented by adjectives and substantives rather than by verbs and prepositions.
He acknowledges that the two tongues have a common basis. Their grammatical framework is identical. The small change of language the adverbs and prepositions, though sometimes strangely used in America, are not strange to an English ear. And there the precise resemblance ends. Accent, idiom, vocabulary give a new turn to the ancient speech.
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