Synchronous Reading

"'You will be seeking strange lands,' Panigpak said. 'Their dwellers may speak tongues unknown to you. Whoever wears this amulet will understand whatever is heard, and can reply in the same tongue.'"

-The Merman's Children, Book Four, I, p. 196.

"The remarkable intentional translators everyone on Oric wore around their necks like amulets decoded the intent of any speaker into the language of the listener..."

-Elliot S. Maggin, Superman: Last Son Of Krypton (London, 1978), 9, p. 66.

See also:

Diaglossa

Where Is My Universal Translator?

The one thing that I do not do here is make all this stuff up. Now I really will try to get back to and stay with that other reading.