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Una Persson, temporal adventuress ([personal profile] una_persson) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu 2013-06-01 09:46 pm (UTC)

audio;

Usually where I tend to go, it's not a problem.

[She's being a bit deliberately vague; it seems like she usually knows at least one relevant language besides English wherever and whenever she goes, and it's something she's never thought about. It's probably part of the general psychic camouflage that allows her kind of time traveller to blend in.]

There is one place and time where they've developed a thing called translation pills. Take one and you'll speak your interlocutor's language perfectly, but no other until it wears off. It's not a perfect solution, but it sometimes has amusing results, which I think they consider a feature rather than a bug, so to speak.

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