beccaelizabeth's dreamwidth journal

The practical details of a fish that wires your brain for a new language are all writer side: we can has English! Onwards to the plot!

They plug in to one brain, learn the way that speaker knows a language, and then plug into another and give them the language they just learned. Details depend on what I want to do to be funny or create complications. Like, they learned English from a science fiction fan, now all the aliens know words like frell and grok and goa'uld, but not all the English speakers do. Once there has been time for all the offworlders to have a go with the fish then all the audience hears is English, plus funny sounds where something doesn't translate, like a word or a name or a title.

Since it's a cheat, I've not thought it through very hard.