On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 2:34 AM, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com> wrote:

The Imperium is large and sophisticated enough to identify all poliglots and have one assigned to all major warships.

???????

An actual interpreter, for each and every one of the presumably thousands of different languages and dialects currently in use across an Empire of more than ten thousand systems, which borders upon at least an order of magnitude *more* systems?

Richard Aiken

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