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44:4.95. The broad­cast di­rec­tors. The broad­casts of Par­a­dise, the super­uni­verses, and the lo­cal uni­verses are un­der the gen­eral super­vi­sion of this group of thought con­servers. They serve as cen­sors and ed­i­tors as well as co-or­di­na­tors of the broad­cast ma­te­rial, mak­ing a super­uni­verse adap­ta­tion of all Par­a­dise broad­casts and adapt­ing and trans­lat­ing the broad­casts of the An­cients of Days into the in­di­vid­ual tongues of the lo­cal uni­verses.

48:3.125. In­ter­preters and Trans­la­tors. Dur­ing the early man­so­nia ca­reer you will have fre­quent re­course to the in­ter­preters and the trans­la­tors. They know and speak all the tongues of a lo­cal uni­verse; they are the lin­guists of the realms.

48:3.13You will not ac­quire new lan­guages au­to­mat­i­cally; you will learn a lan­guage over there much as you do down here, and these bril­liant be­ings will be your lan­guage teach­ers. The first study on the man­sion worlds will be the tongue of Sa­ta­nia and then the lan­guage of Neb­a­don. And while you are mas­ter­ing these new tongues, the Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions will be your ef­fi­cient in­ter­preters and pa­tient trans­la­tors. You will never en­counter a vis­i­tor on any of these worlds but that some one of the Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions will be able to of­fi­ci­ate as in­ter­preter.

44:4.3Each super­uni­verse has its own lan­guage, a tongue spo­ken by its per­son­al­i­ties and pre­vail­ing through­out its sec­tors. This is known as the tongue of Uversa in our super­uni­verse. Each lo­cal uni­verse also has its own lan­guage. All of the higher or­ders of Neb­a­don are bilin­gual, speak­ing both the lan­guage of Neb­a­don and the tongue of Uversa. When two in­di­vid­u­als from dif­fer­ent lo­cal uni­verses meet, they com­mu­ni­cate in the tongue of Uversa; if, how­ever, one of them hails from an­other super­uni­verse, they must have re­course to a trans­la­tor. In the cen­tral uni­verse there is lit­tle need of a lan­guage; there ex­ists per­fect and well-nigh com­plete un­der­stand­ing; there, only the Gods are not fully com­pre­hended. We are taught that a chance meet­ing on Par­a­dise re­veals more of mu­tual un­der­stand­ing than could be com­mu­ni­cated by a mor­tal lan­guage in a thou­sand years. Even on Sal­ving­ton we “know as we are known.”