A brother hedged with alien speech And lacking all interpreter.

There was a burst of alien speech, and a muttering; and then she saw them struggle.

Suddenly I became aware of him, leaning back from the table and listening curiously to our alien speech of a world he did not know.

He spoke to the local merchants in alien speech.

Disembodied, alien speech washed over him once more, words that he did not hear so much as feel.

His tongue was stiff and awkward with the alien speech.

They were surrounded by men of alien speech and unpredictable temper.

It already contained what his people had learned of alien speech as it was 21,000 years earlier.

He could read English, but he saw there an alien speech.

How can we presume to interpret an alien speech merely from inflection and situation?