I have only vague memories of this book:
- Aliens had pacified the Earth but there was a resistance. One of the main characters was a man who had learned to speak their language.
- The scene I recall was of him in a car trying to accomplish some task for the resistance: they came upon some humans guarding the facility, and he shouted "OBEY!" at them in the alien language and they hustled to follow orders.
- There was some business at the end of the book about Earth children being taken into alien homes for the purpose of learning the language, and our hero was pointing out that the aliens would have to actually talk to the kids: not just allow them to observe.
Help? Probably 1970s ish? Or was it a short story perhaps in Galaxy?
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