“So everyone hears it a little differently. Like just now—they heard your Outer Qwghlmian accent, and assumed you were delivering an insult. But I could tell you were saying that you believed, based on a rumor you heard last Tuesday in the meat market, that Mary was convalescing normally and would be back on her feet within a week.” “I was trying to say that she looked beautiful,” Waterhouse protests. “Ah!” Rod says. “Then you should have said, ‘Gxnn bhldh sqrd m!’ ” “That’s what I said!” “No, you confused the mid-glottal with the frontal glottal,” Rod says. “Honestly,” Waterhouse says, “can
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