- The hepatods pronunciation is very different than one of humans. When Banks tried to imitate their spoken language, the aliens gave no response until she responded using the recording the aliens. Because they have 7 eyes that
ringed the top of the heptapod’s body, they don’t have to turn their head around to read their writings. “a sentence is written by joining the logograms for the constituent words. They join the logograms by rotating and modifying them”(11).
- The aliens have 7 eyes that is around its head, so for them to talk they don’t need to turn their heads. The aliens are structured differently than humans, so their vocal tract is much different than humans. The “puckered orififice at the top of its body vibrate”(6) is how the aliens communicate orally.