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Almost all [[Trapped in Another World]] stories will postulate that Translator Microbes are part of the magical nature of this other world. No justification is required or expected, although it's often good to have some kind of [[Hand Wave]] to point out that it's not "realistic".
A well-done page on this is [https://web.archive.org/web/20100824162041/http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/lingo.html here].
'''Translator Microbes''' have a tendency to break down when faced with [[Pardon My Klingon|alien cuss words]]. It is rare for them to state that [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels|their transport is overloaded with Anguilliformes]].
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* Like in ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'', Yuuri of ''[[Kyou Kara Maou]]'' cannot understand a word anyone is saying to him in the magical world at first, until he gets zapped with language magic ([[MST3K Mantra|or something, I dunno]]) and then he can understand everyone perfectly.
* ''[[Doraemon]]'' has a pocket dogu called "Hon'yaku-Konnyaku" (translation konjac). This piece of jelly allows one to understand and speak any known language after eating it. The duration is unknown. Doraemon also has a variety of flavors of konjac such as miso.
* In ''[[
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** Another ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' episode had the Ferengi characters [[Fish Out of Temporal Water|crash-landed in Earth's past]] and due to an unfortunately timed malfunction ''unable'' to speak or understand English for a brief period. [[Translation Convention|Of course]], their mouths still made English words.
** Likewise, ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' had several instances where their more primitive universal translators needed some time and calibration (sometimes by a professional linguist) to figure out a new language.
** Also subverted in the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "Darmok", where despite translating the individual words, the [https://web.archive.org/web/20071217205127/http://rec.horus.at/trek/lists/darmok.html resulting speech] was still incomprehensible. The language was too steeped in [https://web.archive.org/web/20081205013132/http://www.totse.com/en/ego/science_fiction/darmok1.html cultural metaphors].
*** Yes, an [[Planet of Hats|entire planet]] of [[All the Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary|Tropers]].
*** Similarly, the season 1 ''Deep Space Nine'' episode "Babel" has pretty much the entire station affected by a disease that causes aphasia. There's nothing the translators can do when your brain tells you the word for "chair" is "buggy".
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Catharsis]]'', while in the Land under the Chair, Jen, Baxter, and Rremly all get infant dust bunnies shoved in their ears so they can understand the fluff language.
* In Traci Spencer's ''[
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' the Uryuoms (but not the chimerae, according to the [[Word of God]]) have the ability to ''instantly learn any language'' by rubbing the knobs of their antennae against the head of someone who speaks it, or teach a language which they know to others in the [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-09-24 same fashion].
* [http://www.graphicsmash.com//comics/fans.php?view=archive&chapter=5619 Consciously averted]{{Dead link}} in ''[[Fans]]'', where a group of aliens communicate by a form of visualized telepathy; only artists with exceptional visual imagination are able to communicate (and [[Mars Needs Women|mate]]) with them.
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