Re: Mutant English take two

--- Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Gary Shannon wrote:
>
> > English was once a single spoken language of a
> large
> > group of Earth humans and had, therefore, a single
> > manner of producing verbal sounds to convey the
> > language audibly. But, of course, not all sentient
>
> To the best of my knowledge, that's never happened.
>
> --
> Tristan
<snip>

The single manner of producing sound is the humanoid
use of vocal chords, mouth, tongue and teeth.  Since
other species might not produce sounds in this manner
the human race does, indeed, have a single manner of
producing spoken sounds.  Unless armpit noises are
included.

--gary