The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

by Iain M. Banks

it is willed into actuality.

when Culture people didn’t speak Marain for a long time and did speak another language, they were liable to change; they acted differently, they started to think in that other language, they lost the carefully balanced interpretative structure of the Culture language, left its subtle shifts of cadence, tone and rhythm behind for, in virtually every case, something much cruder.

Think of it as a sort of mutual rape.”