I'm pretty sure the article meant China Miéville's Embassytown, a novel about aliens who speak with two mouths in unison using a language of similes (referencin

I'm pretty sure the article meant China Miéville's Embassytown, a novel about aliens who speak with two mouths in unison using a language of similes (referencing events they orchestrate to expand their vocabulary), not The City & The City: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassytown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassytown