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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7245187" data-attributes="member: 20564">If I say "Right, you need to go left", you've heard all the words for "Go right!" even though it's a different sentence.  So at the very least you don't need to have heard the incantation in order, you can use words from other spells and arrange them.Actually, since the kenku can mimick sounds not just whole words, it could do plenty of others. "knee" is just the first part of "need", etc.Of course, if you take that to it's logical conclusion, there's only a certain number of unique sounds in a language.  Once you can reproduce all of them you should be able to put together any word.<a href="https://www.quora.com/Phonetics-Which-language-has-the-most-amount-of-sounds-in-the-world-and-also-the-highest-amongst-the-most-common-languages-in-the-world" target="_blank">https://www.quora.com/Phonetics-Which-language-has-the-most-amount-of-sounds-in-the-world-and-also-the-highest-amongst-the-most-common-languages-in-the-world</a>The last bit - hooking together heard sounds, plus the kenku's expert ability to duplicate things, comes together for a wizard.  Given the directions from a spell book or scroll, they can perfectly (if soullessly) hook together sounds in order to cast.For me clerical casting is more likely language, though more like how before SALT II some masses were given in Latin.  That's easy, it's a language even if it's just one used religiously.A warlock hearing their invocations in their head from their patron makes sense for a kenku who is promised power.How a sorcerer does it, since it's all from within them, I have no clue.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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