The Babel Fish lives on brainwave radiation from every source but its host. It then excretes enegry in the form of exactly the correct brainwaves needed by its host to understand what was just said. The Babel fish is small, yellow and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. More @Wikipedia
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