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"If you're interested in being along even if I'm not speaking Baseline - then yes, and -"

"You'd throw off my experimental results, if you were not disguised, because people would be scared of you, and would expect you to report them to Governance which would then - carry out threats against them, punish them, if they said something critical of Governance?"


(It's a much longer sentence in Baseline than it would be in Taldane; words like 'punishment' are not just long but jarring and ugly in their internal rhythm.  Whoever designed this language evidently didn't want people thinking thoughts like this.)

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"If you're interested in being along even if I'm not speaking Baseline - then yes, although -"

"You'd throw off my experimental results, if you were not disguised, because people would be scared of you, and would expect you to report them to Governance which would then - carry out threats against them, punish them, if they said something critical of Governance?"


(It's a much longer sentence in Baseline than it would be in Taldane; words like 'punishment' are not just long but jarring and ugly in their internal rhythm.  Whoever designed this language evidently didn't want people thinking thoughts like this.)

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"If you're interested in being along even if I'm not speaking Baseline - then yes, although -"

"You'd throw off my experimental results, if you were not disguised, because people would be scared of you, and would expect you to report them to Governance which would then - carry out threats against them, punish them, if they said something critical of Governance?"


(It's a much longer sentence in Baseline than it would be in Taldane; words like 'punishment' are not just long but jarring and ugly in their internal rhythm.  Whoever designed this language evidently didn't want people thinking thoughts like this; or maybe just wanted people to notice when they did.)