I wonder if Miqo'te can purr

[nothing_cool]

I never really thought about it until recently when I noticed a lot of the NPC Miqo'te rolling "R"s. And I figured, why the heck not. Assuming that one needs to vibrate one's "airpipes" to create a purr, I did consider the fact of changing the way speech sounds due to it. But if you do not try to purr when speaking, I should think that it doesn't affect speech much. I notice IRL cats can't "speak" and purr at the same time, and they cannot eat and purr at the same time (I've had several that will try), so if they do not speak, I would think thta the ability for purr wuold not affect speech to much. Anmd on the thing with having cat-like tongues, they would have no use for them. Could you imagine a Miqo'te trying to lick them selves clean in an effort to groom? I certainly can't (but I had fun and a good laugh trying to imagine it).

[CyrilLucifer]

I never really thought about it until recently when I noticed a lot of the NPC Miqo'te rolling "R"s. And I figured, why the heck not. Assuming that one needs to vibrate one's "airpipes" to create a purr, I did consider the fact of changing the way speech sounds due to it. But if you do not try to purr when speaking, I should think that it doesn't affect speech much. I notice IRL cats can't "speak" and purr at the same time, and they cannot eat and purr at the same time (I've had several that will try), so if they do not speak, I would think thta the ability for purr wuold not affect speech to much. Anmd on the thing with having cat-like tongues, they would have no use for them. Could you imagine a Miqo'te trying to lick them selves clean in an effort to groom? I certainly can't (but I had fun and a good laugh trying to imagine it).

The papillae part was a joke. It did amuse me though, hence why I mentioned it.

Though you're kinda proving my point here and you don't realize it. Cats can't use the same range of sounds as humans. Biologically, it's impossible, for many reasons, namely because their vocal chords are developed differently; this is the same reason male and female songbirds have very different vocal capabilities. And linguistically, they're not purring on every r, because that's not how either of the English rhotic r sounds work (you don't breathe out with the pressure you need to purr when you use r), nor is that how trilling works (trilling is a completely different sound). They may be able to purr, but they aren't doing it while speaking on every r. That's completely a fantasy that I can't even see working in a fantasy game or novel and is just used to emulate the sound, it's not grounded in linguistic reality.

So the real issue is if they're capable of it while not speaking.

^ Lemme throw you a couple of screaming comely mandragora to complete your yandere fantasies. >.>

You know, there is a relatively famous set of XI fanart (XIV uses the same white and black mandy models as XI, so it's essentially the same as something you would see in XIV) with females of the player races and mandies doing, er, lewd things.

Not that I would know. Nope.