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Originally Posted by Diaphanus
That's one way to put it. The l is produced by allowing the airstream to flow over the sides of the tongue, but the r is produced by allowing the airstream to flow over the center of the tongue. Technically, though, there is more than one l sound in English. The l in lip and the l in milk are phonetically thought of as slightly different sounds.
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That doesn't address the fact that there is a different shape to the lips, and not just the shape of the tongue, which was my point in the first place. These guys claim to be expert translaters, and yet they claim that only the tongue changes shape, which is incorrect.