Re: Conlang for giant caterpillars

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