Max peers at the paper. "So... those are the 'ah' sounds... when she says Nloggy, I noticed- you said something about vowel length- she holds the sound a little longer. That's not like, in English, it makes a different sound, but here it just... changes the length?"

"Yes," Trevor responds, "English double vowel syntax does not apply to every language in existence. I'm glad you're paying attention."

"You don't have to-"

"The real question is, does it extend past two? More vowels, you hold the sound longer? How do we check that?"