"A fascinating question, and one I have spent much of the last twenty years considering. For there are many cultures in this world, and a number of them think they have their own languages and yet have always been able to converse. For a long time it was simply believed to be an aspect of magic. And that in some cases the magic was strong enough to transcend other barriers, and in other cases not. Take for example how easily Cinderella can communicate with her mice friends, where as Lady Tremaine, as far as I know, has never been able to have a meaningful to way dialogue with her cat Lucifer. Or how one young lady, by name of Tiana said that she could understand the speech of a dog when she became a frog, but had not been able to prior to that point."

"However," he said, waving a hand, "here we are, cut off from magic and yet we remain able to communicate to a certain degree. It implies something core to the world itself, but what that something is, I have not yet been able to ascertain. It is a fascinating topic for study, especially now that I have both time to pursue it and access to people from worlds where perhaps it works differently. As I suspect it does on yours, from this line of questioning. "