“That seems good sense to me,” remarked Leicester. “Our problem isn’t likely to be any easier than the Cloud’s problem, and the Cloud won’t understand our messages until it’s discovered the English language.”
“The problem’s probably a great deal worse than that,” said Kingsley. “We’ve every reason to believe that the Cloud is more intelligent than we are, so its language—whatever it may be—is likely to be a lot more complicated than ours. My proposal is that we stop bothering trying to decipher the messages we’ve been receiving. Instead I propose we rely on it’s learned our language it can reply in our own code.”
“Dam’ good idea. Always force foreigner to learn English,” said Alexandrov to Yvette Hedelfort.
--Fred Hoyle