 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. You'll be puzzling over what I'll tell you, and you'll be getting used to the idea that you are the man who makes atomic power practical. Jerome Boell, just a plain engineer, the man who put atomic power in every home. You won't exactly believe it, but you'll want to go along. You are completely outside of time and space, as best you can guess how things are. "Maybe it's no dimension—or it might be the fifth; if you're going to skip over the so-called fourth without traveling along it, you'd need a fifth. 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. In spite of Einstein, you have always had the idea that time is an effect of gravity, and I sort of agree, still. He told me, just as I'm telling you, that it's an interstellar civilization." There's no feeling of acceleration—some kind of false gravity they use in the future.
 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.