Venerian n. 2

When he was almost certain that the torture was over, his hopes were suddenly destroyed. The three Venerians approached again, each bearing a number of vessels containing germ cultures. These they placed on the table at Parkinson’s side; then two of them withdrew, leaving the leader to continue his work. Uttering a few words in the Venerian tongue, he occupied…himself with something on the table, and a moment later turned toward the bacteriologist, a long needle in his hands.

Don't you know what a snalper is?…. Why, it isn’t slang. It is the Venerian equivalent for the boss. Translated, it means ‘ogre’.

Oscar swore softly in Venerian. ‘They can do anything!’

A few billion people…heard me refer to Venusian president Telik Syka as selik tyka which in Venerian means something like ‘ponderous moron’.

‘Shove it,’ Trooper said. Then, in Venerian, ‘Do you see any natives?’

There would be a word meaning Earth—the planet I live on—in any language! I mean, the Martian word for Mars would be Earth. The Venerian word for Venus would be Earth.

However, on Venus, Lucifer is generally known as KuludrKrashaldsk, a name that is impossible to pronounce unless you are familiar with the finer points of the Native Venerian language.