velar trill (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Baker, John]

        The short story is "Cabin Boy," by Damon Knight (1951, according
to Wikipedia).  The story notes at the end that Tommy Loy had
circumnavigated the skipper, a scurrilous reference that I completely
missed until Mark Mandel pointed it out.  Supposedly the story, which is
considered a classic, was based on the limerick.


John Baker


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> There are attested (in sf) olfactory languages. The citation I'm
> thinking of, though I can't recall the title or author, is at least 45

> years old and features two humans and an alien who is "cabin boy" of
> his ship. Since his actual name is literally unprintable, the author
> nicknames him "Tommy Loy", and ends the story with a very shaggy
> allusion.
>


Another is in John Scalzi's recent novel, "The Android's Dream".
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