Tensei Shitara Dragon no Tamago datta: Ibara no Dragon Road - Vol. 6 Ch. 27

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What kills me is that Irushia should be able to talk in his normal dragon form. He has a mouth, tongue, and lungs. He has Level 3 skill of the language every human has spoke thus far. He was able to talk to the cat girl in his human form. Unless there is a curse on him that specifically prevents him from producing sound, there is no reason he shouldn't be able to speak out loud in his dragon form. No reason.

I've seen a number of manga do this. Where a former human becomes a dog or monster. And suddenly can't talk. Granted, learning a new language takes time and practice. But once they know it, they should be able to speak words out loud. Instead, every character this has ever happened to, acts like they have the curse of mute, or act like they're mouth has been sown shut.

And it's never acknowledged or thought of to just try making noise using your breath, tongue, and teeth to produce sounds. Authors act like it's not even a basic option to consider. So weird. Would make much more sense being cursed or silenced as a status ailment.
 
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What kills me is that Irushia should be able to talk in his normal dragon form. He has a mouth, tongue, and lungs. He has Level 3 skill of the language every human has spoke thus far. He was able to talk to the cat girl in his human form. Unless there is a curse on him that specifically prevents him from producing sound, there is no reason he shouldn't be able to speak out loud in his dragon form. No reason.

I've seen a number of manga do this. Where a former human becomes a dog or monster. And suddenly can't talk. Granted, learning a new language takes time and practice. But once they know it, they should be able to speak words out loud. Instead, every character this has ever happened to, acts like they have the curse of mute, or act like they're mouth has been sown shut.

And it's never acknowledged or thought of to just try making noise using your breath, tongue, and teeth to produce sounds. Authors act like it's not even a basic option to consider. So weird. Would make much more sense being cursed or silenced as a status ailment.
The problem is not that he has a mouth, teeth, tongue or lungs. but the specific muscles to use those face parts correctly, some languages use the Uvula and nasal sounds like french, and the uvula is not very common in other animals, also many animals like dogs, cats, lizards and birds don't have lips the same way we do, we have a very specialize group of muscles around our mouth that allows for it to contract in very specific ways, our mouth is very small, and we have cheeks that in conjunction with our lips allows us to puff our cheeks and redirect air toward the front of the face where the lips and teeth are, cats, dogs and many other animals can't manipulate the air inside their mouths quite as well as humans and can't form the shapes and movements required to speak like we do

some animals like Parrots and many mimicking birds actually use almost only their tongue and vocal cords to imitate human speech, but they can do way more sounds than we can

This is why people that have lost all their teeth, or damage their lips in ways that destroy or deform them and elements of our mouths have a VERY hard time speaking or their voices change

In short we have a very unique face structure in the animal kingdom and even slight variations or missing elements can alter our ability to speak
 
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The problem is not that he has a mouth, teeth, tongue or lungs. but the specific muscles to use those face parts correctly, also some languages use the Uvula and nasal sounds like french, and the uvula is not very common in other animals, also many animals like dogs, cats, lizards and birds don't have lips the same way we do, we have a very specialize group of muscles around our mouth that allows for it to contract in very specific ways, also our mouth is very small, and we have cheeks that in conjunction with our lips allows to puff our mouths and redirect air toward the front of the face where the lips and teeth are, cats, dogs and many other animals can't manipulate the air inside their mouths quite as well as humans and can't form the shapes and movements required to speak like we do

some animals like Parrots and many mimicking birds actually uses almost only their tongue and vocal cords to imitate human speech, but they can do way more sounds than we can

This is why people that has lost all their teeth, or damage their lips in ways that destroy or deform elements of our mouths have a VERY hard time speaking or they voices change

In short we have a very unique face structure in the animal kingdom and even slight variations or missing elements can alter our ability to speak
Thank you. That was a very insightful comment. I had no idea. It makes much more sense now.
 
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Thank you. That was a very insightful comment. I had no idea. It makes much more sense now.
You welcome, and actually some minor spoilers
As of manga chapter 48 the MC now has a very human appearance and later discovers that is now able to speak normally when transformed into a human, but because the transformation consumes MP he only speaks when he's already in human form as he later acquired the same telepathy skill as the peach rabbit
 
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