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At the very recently and rapidly constituted bureau of alien affairs, Mark Watson was a computational linguist. This is a phenomena our friends have noticed themselves. “So you know about the various forms of our friends’ language.”
“Uh huh.”
“I was looking over the translation map, I noticed the third and fifth forms cluster very closely in the output space. He was troubled. “We’re totally 100% positive that this is their custom, they’re not the slime god here?”
“They told us about it in the sixth form. It felt like hands clad in the softest calfskin gloves. The effect was too much for Rowena, she came, her moans became screams and she trashed around on the bed. We evolved from he same basic amino acids as they did, our foods are compatible. The final treaty has to be consummated by sex between an alien and a human. It felt like hands clad in the softest calfskin gloves. Respiration and speech uses the posterior orifice.”
“You mean they talk through their but?”
“Exactly.”
“They must be good politicians.”
The science advisor suppressed a chuckle, but
