@ifixcoinops @technomancy speaking of Constellation Games and language, I helped Leonard write this: http://constellation.crummy.com/Pey%20Shkoy%20Benefits%20Humans/ a brief introduction to one of the book's languages
my original idea for the vowels was that they should be recognized not by mouth shape but by the ratio of frequencies produced by a series of separate vibrating membranes deep inside the Alien pulmonary system. but leonard decided that was too complicated, oh well