Mercurian n. 2

The language of Jupiter is common to its race, and the same is true of the Mercurian language, but the consonant in the Venus sound-color scale marks the beginning of separate tongues.

It would be only begging the question to doubt the genuineness of the thing. And if, understanding the language, one were to hear the original as it fell, word for word from the iron mouth of Strokor the Great (in the Mercurian language, strok means iron, or heart)—hearing that, one would believe; none could doubt, nor would. [Ibid. ii. ii. 61/1] I judge that his vision took place on Jeos (the Mercurian word for earth), a world much larger than ours, according to my calculations, and doubtless having enough air to permit very light creatures to move about in it.

The place was crowded; its gallery above, open to the public, was thronged with those curious to see these strange visitors from another world. Sir Isaac, who, fortunately, was fairly fluent in the Mercurian tongue, explained their mission. He was earnest and eloquent. And when he had finished, having done his very best, the King, after a whispered conference with his councillors, made his speech of condolence! Sir Isaac was aghast.

‘You saw,’ the Plutonian was saying triumphantly in Mercurian, ‘—you saw me unmake your Old Fool.’

He saw Carson, and an ideograph flashed on the ground. Carson stared at him, and a slow smile creased his face. It was Dorn, who had taught him the Mercurian language.

Simworthy got up and shuffled towards the medical locker. He was about to open it when a noise like a staticky wristphone speaking Mercurian drew his attention. He looked around, startled.

Your radios are connected to the antennae, though how you expect to talk Mercurian if anyone converses with you, I do not understand.

In a precociously rapid mastery of English…the Mercurian tells the earthman to push off home, a sadder and wiser man now ironically fluent in Mercurian.

This festival for new-music gluttons and trend hunters…. Expect a mix of traditional instruments, voices and electronic, microtonal compositions and an invented ‘Mercurian’ language.