Bocce

Bocce was a silly language that required speakers to roll metal balls on a flat patch of soil. The pattern of the balls determined the meaning of the sentence. It required very fine control to speak Bocce. If a speaker miscalculated and rolled a ball too far, it could completely change the meaning of the sentence from "activate the southern moisture vaporator" to "violate my daughter sexually."

Bocce was an invention of Mungo Baobab's merchant family, so blame them for the ridiculousness of it all. Goldenrod could speak Bocce fluently. He had excellent ball-handling technique.