Lord Frederick Leighton Leighton Idyll painting

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The scenery is all the same everywhere—hills, fields, park-lands, woods, villages: a fertile, pretty, seasonless monotony. Cultivated land and wilderness look exactly alike. The few species of plants are all useful, yielding food or wood or fabric. There is no animal except bacteria, some creatures resembling jellyfish in the oceans, two species of useful insect, and the Nna Mmoy.
Their manners are pleasant, but nobody has yet succeeded in talking with them.
Though their monosyllabic language is melodious to the ear, the translatomat has so much trouble with it that it cannot be relied upon even for the simplest conversation.
A look at the written language may yield some light on the problem. Written Nna