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Out of all of humanity's great Inventions, Universal Translators are among the most important ones, not only bridging the gap between different Cultures, but different Species as well.
Humanity has, as of yet, not found an Alien species with similar cognitive capability to have a conversation with. This hasn’t stopped us, however, from talking to other communicative species that are less Alien. Among Humans, Whales, and Birds, Elephants were discovered to be one of the most talkative groups in the animal kingdom.
Chief among them the exceptionally young, yet immensely old, genus of the Woolly Mammoth. Or rather, their de-extinct relatives.
Despite sharing a common ancestor with humans, given that we both hail from the same planet, their approach to language differs quite a bit from ours.The differences in our languages are perhaps best explained with an abstraction. Unlike all human languages, which follow a Letter to Word to Sentence structure, their languages follow a simpler Letter to Sentence structure. Which means that the meaning of an entire sentence can be communicated in just one word. Although this isn’t a perfect analogy.
Even though our Machines can translate our languages perfectly, we still can't have a real conversation. Despite both our species' vast linguistic capabilities, our different ways of Thinking mean that we can only communicate with each other on the rather basic linguistic level of small children.
Our thinking is so different in fact that they struggle to understand concepts that seem trivial to us. They cannot comprehend our form of Mathematics, for example. Even though they are able to count and do things like addition and subtraction, and are even able to recognize us doing the same, they simply don't process Math like we do.
Similarly, we have trouble understanding some of their most basic ideas. Even though our machines seem to grasp both our abstract concepts and theirs flawlessly, we haven't yet found a way for our AIs to explain things in such a way that both species could understand each other's symbolisms.
And just like how we see their languages as simple and vague, they view our languages as being pedantic and unnecessarily precise.

But all of this doesn’t matter in the end. Because luckily for me, the concept of friendship is a universal one. And a Mammoth never forgets a Friend.

Description

Out of all of humanity's great Inventions, Universal Translators are among the most important ones, not only bridging the gap between different Cultures, but different Species as well.
Humanity has, as of yet, not found an Alien species with similar cognitive capability to have a conversation with. This hasn’t stopped us, however, from talking to other communicative species that are less Alien. Among Humans, Whales, and Birds, Elephants were discovered to be one of the most talkative groups in the animal kingdom.
Chief among them the exceptionally young, yet immensely old, genus of the Woolly Mammoth. Or rather, their de-extinct relatives.
Despite sharing a common ancestor with humans, given that we both hail from the same planet, their approach to language differs quite a bit from ours.The differences in our languages are perhaps best explained with an abstraction. Unlike all human languages, which follow a Letter to Word to Sentence structure, their languages follow a simpler Letter to Sentence structure. Which means that the meaning of an entire sentence can be communicated in just one word. Although this isn’t a perfect analogy.
Even though our Machines can translate our languages perfectly, we still can't have a real conversation. Despite both our species' vast linguistic capabilities, our different ways of Thinking mean that we can only communicate with each other on the rather basic linguistic level of small children.
Our thinking is so different in fact that they struggle to understand concepts that seem trivial to us. They cannot comprehend our form of Mathematics, for example. Even though they are able to count and do things like addition and subtraction, and are even able to recognize us doing the same, they simply don't process Math like we do.
Similarly, we have trouble understanding some of their most basic ideas. Even though our machines seem to grasp both our abstract concepts and theirs flawlessly, we haven't yet found a way for our AIs to explain things in such a way that both species could understand each other's symbolisms.
And just like how we see their languages as simple and vague, they view our languages as being pedantic and unnecessarily precise.

But all of this doesn’t matter in the end. Because luckily for me, the concept of friendship is a universal one. And a Mammoth never forgets a Friend.