It's when he's at the reception with the Lairoubans. He doesn't speak Lairouban or Arabic; she doesn't speak English, Russian, Greek, or French in their Barrayaran dialects or any other, and as such they can't understand each other.
Chapter 4, p.125 in TPB Miles Errant, other page numbers are anyone's guess.
IMHO, the ready availability of audio recordings as a form of cultural interchange will probably delay language drift in the future. English and American English are not diverging nearly as fast as they once were.
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Date: 2009-05-16 10:44 pm (UTC)Chapter 4, p.125 in TPB Miles Errant, other page numbers are anyone's guess.
IMHO, the ready availability of audio recordings as a form of cultural interchange will probably delay language drift in the future. English and American English are not diverging nearly as fast as they once were.