Talk:New World/@comment-77.98.238.169-20180826021526/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180827031751

From what Ainz understands.

However, it probably only translates what you intend for others to be able to understand, since people in the New World are capable of lying, as well as hiding things by use of code language. It also doesn't appear to replace language entirely, it just allows seamless translation. In other words, you have to really believe your idiosyncratic language is real, rather than made up.

So a person who was the last survivor of a civilization (or whatever) and the only one who spoke that language could still be understood if they tried to speak it to others. But a person who just made up a language on their own would probably just be spouting gibberish. There is also the problem of translatable concepts. While Ainz speculated that the effect should allow even dogs and cats to be understood, that is only if they are saying something that translates unambiguously into the language of the hearer.

That said, Hamsuke almost certainly speaks an idiosyncratic language (unless she is a Yggdrasil NPC after all and is really speaking Japanese), yet it is easily understood.