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Re: Conlang for giant caterpillars

From:FFlores <fflores@...>
Date:Sunday, May 30, 1999, 15:32
dunn patrick w <tb0pwd1@...> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 May 1999, FFlores wrote: > > > PS when I say "tongue", it's more "tongues" -- they have > > three, though they usually go together. And they have a > > very free movement, like an octopus tentacle. > > Mm. Are humans going to be able to pronounce their words, or will we have > to find approximations?
I took special care to include sounds that *I* could pronounce with little difficulty. I assume the three tongues will act as one in most case (i. e. not producing coarticulations or other strange effects such as stretching two of them and using the other one to pinch them :) --Pablo Flores