LJ Idol Presents:

It seems to me that the core of the topic is this:

How does human communication break when an intermediary is involved?

The inclination is to go digital because this seems to be a digital era problem, but we can really go wherever we want with it just as long as some breakdown of communication exists when a middle man or thing is involved. I would like to read about babel fish troubles, especially having to adjust the fish for best effect. (Edit: Thanks to Sobota (http://sobota.livejournal.com/463698.html) for getting me close enough. I wrote this before I read that.)

Which of these would be more interesting to read?

1.) A teacher faces complete and utter linguistic discombobulation as students slip into auto-aural-correct mode.

2.) The first American president living with muteness sends odd and surreal demands through his text-to-speech device.

3.) The promotional for the "Post Human" thought-to-action movement goes awry when the promoter's inner most thoughts are poorly translated.