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"I don't think I'd call it translation magic. I'm not translating from or to anything, I'm just skipping the thing with the codes."

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"Your way of talking is indescribably more complicated than any anywhere else in the multiverse."

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"...really?"

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"Yes!!!!!" Bounce bounce for emphasis.

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"If you say so. It seems simple to me."

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"When someone communicates in any way, your universe apparently encodes 'what they actually meant' on the level of words - we haven't checked if it behaves the same way with extremely agglutinative languages, we should - and then when you interact with their communication you get the 'what they actually meant' not just in addition to the content but in some way that makes it really hard to parse the actual content! That's not simple at all, that's - what you get if you're trying for conformity with high-level rules about how things should work instead of low-level laws of physics - does it have an adjacency limit, can you read things on my computer in languages I don't speak written several dimensions over -"

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"...I don't know, obviously, but I pretty much expect to be able to read no matter what..."

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He makes a computer with a languages program he's been rationing himself on because he can't spend all his time on languages, pulls up a paragraph in something he doesn't speak.

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She can read it.

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"How about something that's ciphered - how about something that's encrypted -" here are paragraphs of each -

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They are gibberish.

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...what if it's a really dumb cipher, like rotating all of the letters by three -

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Still gibberish.

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...what if it's English except with the vowels rotated to the next vowel -

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Gibberish.

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...can her very clever language thingamagig handle misspellings -

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To a point. A pretty arbitrary point.

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Weird. 

 

"Yeah, definitely most complicated translation system in the world."

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"It's not a translation system."

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"Is too."

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"What makes it a translation system?"

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"It's magic, it functions by taking languages as inputs and turning them into information in a form that the user can understand -"

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"Most of the time I have talked in my life I have not been talking to mortals. All fairies have plain speech."

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"Can you give me the title of a book -"

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"...'Nine and the Island'?"

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