That half-assed (ba-dum-ching) pun is enough to get the corner of Wikus's mouth twitching, though it doesn't quite reach a smile.

"No, no, we can talk to them. Some of us can talk to them. People just... Prefer to call them Prawn." It's kind of derogatory. They're not very popular. "But we probably couldn't pronounce their word anyway. Human mouths, they can't speak that Prawn language."