In fact, he understood none of it. When that passage was spoken in English, it was nothing but adjectives and function words, with barely any nouns. Although learning English was not difficult for Electronic Life, this had clearly gone beyond the scope of learning English. It was a major test for the linguistic logic modules of Electronic Life.
The Department of Resources secretary failed the test; clearly, he was not advanced enough. Although Supreme Intelligence passed and understood that the Minister of Resources merely wanted to make up some environmental work and show his face, even he had no answer to that long string of words.
That was because the entire string contained neither any concrete subject nor any clearly referential pronouns. Every central thing had turned into an adjective modifying another adjective, to the point where you could not even say, "This isn't a reasonable reason," because it was not even a reason.
But that was precisely the brilliance of it—it was not not a reason, either. It was nothing at all. It sounded like emotional lifeforms, those seemingly perfect beings created by God, had finally reached the end of their designed lifespan and begun suffering from programming errors and garbled code.
Supreme Intelligence finally understood why that speech had to be delivered in English, because no advanced language could express things that way.
For example, although the Interstellar Common Tongue they now used was alphabetic, that was merely to make spelling and pronunciation easier to connect, speeding up learning. At its core, however, its word formation was extremely concise, and it barely had any grammar. You could say things forward or backward; either way worked.
Moreover, because it was a language created directly out of thin air rather than developed over time, it had no spaghetti code. Every