Damn this is a great fanfic: Oolon Colluphid Was Right

Oolon Colluphid Was Right by melannen is an excellent Stargate Atlantis story which dances with the common SFF trope of the "universal translator," which magics away the very real issue of language and culture.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/974346

I delighted in the narrative conceit, and was lost in many of the geek references. Thankfully sophia_sol provides a Terran/Atlantean translation:
https://sophia-sol.dreamwidth.org/226741.html