(urth) The green man is fake

[Lee Berman]

>Antonio Pedro Marques:  Without teeth, language becomes impaired.
>Speech, I meant, though if enough people have deficient speech then it will 
>become a problem of the language itself.

Yes. Loss of hearing provides a much greater barrier to speech than losing
one's teeth. Yet deaf people have quickly (in evolutionary time) managed to
develop a language as nuanced and rich as for those who can hear.