It occurs to me that the yuels and the jivas in Jim and the Flims going to be better characters if they can talk—but that their speech should be strange.

[A jiva and a yuel.:]

I think of the Unipuskers in Frek and the Elixir, who only talk in imperative sentences, that was rich, a great gimmick for expressing bossiness. And the devilish-looking wackles in Spaceland, they talked in a kind of Beat poetry.

Here's a simple and powerful idea: the yuels speak in strings of verbs. and the jivas speak