The Foreigner series grammar...

When I went looking for the grammar of American English hostile language, I was very lucky. For one thing, the Verbal Attack Patterns [like "If you REALLY loved me, you wouldn't waste MONEY the way you do!":] just leaped out at me, and they turned out to be a very large part of the hostility grammar.

With CJ Cherryh's Foreigner novels, I haven't had that sort of good fortune. However, I think I'm beginning to have a clue to at least one of the aspects of that grammar. What she does, leading up...