“So you know about the various forms of our friends’ language.”
“Uh huh.”
“I was looking over the translation map, I noticed the third and fifth forms cluster very closely in the output space. He carried on studying the briefing paper. Sex video Our anthropologists have been studying their rituals and customs. The third form tends to express cruder concepts, so if you change a fifth form word to a third form word in a sentence you can end up with a dirty joke pun.”
“That could make life difficult, can we alter the topology of the map to increase the separation of the forms?”
“That was what I was thinking we want to do, but I was examining the output and I think we’ve been translating ‘handshake’ as ‘fuck’ by mistake.” They both looked over to the action on the screen. We don’t want to sabotage the negotiations, so we just moved politely onto the logistics of the act.”
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