"Granting that for a moment, just how would you use such a language?"
Farradyne eyed Clevis thoughtfully before he spoke. "I couldn't," he said. "You'd have to take some statement like 'I've been shot!' and break it down to utter the 'I've' in the upper register, the 'been' in the middle tones, and the 'shot' in the bass region."
"Make talking fast—but difficult."
"Make it impossible," said Farradyne pointedly, "for a human being with normal vocal chords."
"What are you trying to say?"
"Maybe it's another race, Clevis."
"A what?" exploded Clevis.
"Item: Carolyn Niles is immune to hellflower. Item: Brenner is immune to marcoleptine. Correlation: they're both hellflower operators."
"Based on a grunt and a cry and an exclamation ... you're asking a lot of me, although we've spent years following less tangible evidence than this."