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    Quote Originally Posted by cyborgmermaid View Post
    Bone vibration through the horns. Humans actually have something similar, which is why we can hear our own voice so clearly when we speak, and why it sounds so different to us than to everyone who hears it the normal way. So then of course one could very easily make the argument that the would sounds slightly different to Au Ra than it does to everyone else.
    Things would sound drastically different between the various horn styles.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MsQi View Post
    Things would sound drastically different between the various horn styles.
    Hearing different things doesn't matter so long as they translate to the same meaning at the end of it. It's like how you can't really prove people see the same colors, but they know that a color with certain RGB values is called "red" or "blue". Even if your red is closer to what I see as blue, for instance.
    Assuming that sound translation is in effect when they speak too - so that when we need them to say "ah" they say "ah", even if what they hear is "oh" - then there won't be a problem of communication.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BillyKaplan View Post
    Hearing different things doesn't matter so long as they translate to the same meaning at the end of it. It's like how you can't really prove people see the same colors, but they know that a color with certain RGB values is called "red" or "blue". Even if your red is closer to what I see as blue, for instance.
    Assuming that sound translation is in effect when they speak too - so that when we need them to say "ah" they say "ah", even if what they hear is "oh" - then there won't be a problem of communication.
    The design of the external human ear works with our brains for directional awareness. Sound from various directions has very slight changes (timing and frequency) due to the specific shape of our ears. There is variation from person to person but the same parts are there in most cases. Since they are all roughly the same, and leave a lot of the sound unfiltered we all hear roughly the same frequency response. What you hear also affects how you speak. Since the horns filter everything that come in then they have a greater effect on frequency response than our outer ears. The different horn shapes are likely to result in different emphasis on consonants. I suppose their society would adapt but to outsiders they would probably seem to have different "accents".
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    How the hear is not one of tough questions about them.
    There are other more intriguing questions about them.
    Like how they sleep.
    How they kiss if they kiss.
    How they you know "relieve" their stress.
    How they can wear clothes with scales and horns. (their attires seem the normal ones everyone has so no special designs for them).
    Why they look so angry all the time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Riardon View Post
    Why they look so angry all the time.
    They're angry because there are still far more generic cats than lizards out there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Riardon View Post
    Why they look so angry all the time.
    Most of the Au Ra females I've seen look like they're about to cry.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Riardon View Post
    Like how they sleep.
    I could imagine them using a pillow like geishas do - a small wooden block with a little pillow on top. They'd sleep on their back, placing their neck/head on the wooden block so that the horns wont touch the bed and would freely eh... hang in the air, kinda
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    How do Au Ra procreate without the size difference making it awkward, or is awkward love-making their curse?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Skeltal-Bons View Post
    How do Au Ra procreate without the size difference making it awkward, or is awkward love-making their curse?
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