Re: Masochistic Grammar - YANNC

> I was reading one day, and a thought popped into my head:
> What would a crossbreed of Arabic and Latin sound like, spoken by
> creatures with two mouths? (and vocal tracts; I didn't want to
> bruise my mind with cross-mouth consonant harmony.)  Arabic-style
> morphology ideas kept running around and giving me headaches, so I'm
> going to throw my ideas at the list.
I have read (or seen - can't remember) somewhere that birds have two
sets of vocal chords, meaning they can produce two completely
different notes at the same time - so the idea of one set of vocal
chords producing the main word flow, with a second set adding extra
(tonal?) information to the combined output is not that far fetched...

Two mouths would probably lead to two separate conversations - humans
with two heads (and siamese twins with conjoined brains) are known:
each mouth seems to belong to a separate individual.

Rik

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