 What can be determined about the language used in the futuristic civilization that Jerome visits?
You will, you know, so why quibble about it? Yes, it'll be pretty obvious it must be a time machine. I figured out once that such a universe would need some seven or eight time and space dimensions. Maybe there is no machine, and it's just easier for us to imagine it. When you spend thirty years thinking about it, as I did—and you will—you get further and further from an answer. That means you either carry a small time field with you, or you are catching a small increment of time from the main field.
 They are lazy, based on the slurring and laws against physical exertion.
 They are lazy, based on the slurring and laws against physical exertion.  They are all drunks, based on the slurring.  They are all moving at a snail pace, based on the slurring and relaxed tempers.  They are all in a hurry, based on the slurring.