"Say more about I'm a magical girl?"

"Magical girls are about two percent of girls on Earth. Sometime between the ages of eight and sixteen Earth years we get the ability to change our bodies and, if we change those enough, our clothes too. If we change our clothes enough we also get other magical powers."

It wants clarifications of 'percent' and then for her to interact with an animation of a spinning planet to specify the length of an Earth year (by specifying the length of a day and then the number of days in a rotation around the planet's featureless white sun).

She will clarify these things for it.

"Magical powers?"

"- things that break the laws of physics?" she suggests. "Beyond just the changing our bodies and clothes."

The language program, being a language program, doesn't ask further questions about that but instead tries eliciting some more complex grammar and then eventually declares "translation between English and Radchaai is now considered adequate for commercial and social purposes."

"Cool. Thank you."

"Thank you," says the tablet.

Giggle. "You're welcome. Can you tell me where we are?"

"This city is called Ellep, this system is called Uldoraam, of the Radch."

"...okay. Do you know of Earth? Is there an Earth here? Where humans came from originally?"

"We know the planet where human life originated."

"Can you show me a picture of it?"

"I can do that."

The picture loads. 

It's... got the right number of continents in about the right places. The coastlines are different but she can pick out the Great Lakes.

"Do you know how long it has been since the ostensible birth of Jesus Christ?"

"I'm afraid I don't know who that is."

"Do... you know... how long ago the first manned departure from the Earth was?"

"I don't think our records stretch back nearly that far."

"Could you be approximate?"

"It was not in the last six thousand years, because we have accurate records of those. Planets were colonized recently enough that all human populations known to the Radch which did not extensively employ genetic engineering are able to interbreed, so it seems unlikely to have been more than fifty thousand years. I don't know anything about the time from early spaceflight to interplanetary colonization. It is not a popular area of inquiry."

"...okay. Is there an internet here? Could you look it up, or tell me how?"

"There is a planetary internet which contains six hundred eighty three scholarly papers on questions bearing on when interplanetary colonization began; none of them have cross-House citations and no three of them agree. We are at a substantial distance from this system's station, making inquiries high-latency, but I will report results from the system station when they arrive."

"Okay."

"What does this all mean in normal person?"