One hoon name contains a "B' Auph-hu-Phwuhbhu, author of The Art of Exile
Page 230 of the hardback Brightness Reef. Well, I still wanted to do the following, so let's make this er the exception by choice. ------- Though the Hoon can easily pronounce any Anglic word with the letter B, they choose not to use it in their own language. For the sounds "Ba-ba-ba" or "Bi-bi-bi" are the first sounds to be made by a hoon infant. Automatically or instinctively...... Whereupon one or the other of the Jijo parents take the baby into the little hut out back of the family khuta. (Indoor facilities for the more civilized Hoon planets.) When a child is old enough to walk there by themselves, they are old enough to stop making the B sound. Auph-hu-Phwuhbhu, as a rebellious author, had his name changed to reflect the need for a literary second childhood. Or just to piss off a few hoon critics. ----There ya go Julia. Don't you wish the human learning process was going to be as easy as a Hoon's? William Taylor -------------------- The piss, of course, being yellow on Jijo. but green on Hurmuphta. (as determined in last zMUD.) Love them native spices! _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
