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Old 08-22-2011, 01:20 AM
 
Location: Michigan
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Ever heard of a frenectomy? And no, it's not a procedure to remove your Facebook friends. Or enemies.

It's a surgical procedure to lengthen your tongue by cutting ... OK, you probably don't want to know the details, but a British teenager recently underwent the procedure to help her speak Korean.

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Old 08-22-2011, 04:42 AM
 
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Too bad she didn't know that all humans (save people with actually diagnosed deformities or speech disorders) are physiologically capable of producing all sounds made in human languages. She could have saved a whole lot of money by just taking a Linguistics 101 course before going through with this procedure.
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Old 08-22-2011, 10:27 AM
 
Location: NW Indiana
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Ever heard of a frenectomy? And no, it's not a procedure to remove your Facebook friends. Or enemies.

It's a surgical procedure to lengthen your tongue by cutting ... OK, you probably don't want to know the details, but a British teenager recently underwent the procedure to help her speak Korean.

Foreign tongue | The Newsroom - Yahoo! News
That's just weird and freaky. Yuck!
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Old 08-22-2011, 04:09 PM
 
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Learning to speak Korean better was an excuse. She really wanted to kiss French better.
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Old 08-22-2011, 07:49 PM
 
Location: Orlando, Florida
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It's just a snip of a very small piece of skin....but I probably wouldn't have done it.
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