Well, I believe that like with task actions, that "week" assumes technically the arrangement of 7 24 hour days, and specifically that you're only using a majority of your time in those days, like 16+ hours on it (maybe more like 20 because Basic Biomods). 1/3 is kind of awkward, but if you divide a week by 3, you get 56 hours per point, basically. And the "learn a human language in a day" is after what the game calls "complete immersion", which could be difficult to actually do for a whole day, you have to go out of your way to do it. As for what that means, well, you don't roll every time your character speaks, do you? Hell, the game even says simultaneous translation is very good through the Mesh - so if you spend a day on immersion with Hyper Linguist, you probably don't even need the mesh to do a rough translation. But if you don't take the time to spend skill points on like, a legit technical knowledge of the language, you're not going to be able to write poetry in italian, or write very technical stuff because, y'know, not covered by your immersion therapy. But for day-to-day conversational stuff, you'd be fine. You don't usually roll for that anyway. That said, some developer clarification on RAI would be nice, as it is an implant too, not just a trait which makes it slightly more complicated since nearly anyone can buy it.

hperantunes wrote:

I got the impression Hyper Linguist is partially designed to cope with alien languages (e.g. Factors' Fart).

Factor commication has been describe as far to removed from how transhuman can commicate, or concieve as commication that we cant really understanding it at all. I believe all translation is from the Factors, not from us. Hyper Linguist wouldnt grant the morph the ability to make exotic chemicals, and then aerosol them.

Perhaps I should point out that not all rules are error free. For instance, Skillware doesn't provide enough information on how to use it. Every attempt to use it is a house rule. Its not a cheap augment either. Skillware plus a few skillsofts can reach or even exceed 20,000 cr. So its not a minor augment. Some questions for it: How quickly can you change skillsofts? What does it means by 100 point limit? Does activating a 40 rating skillsoft use 40 points or 40 - aptitude points? Does skillsofts replace existing skills, is 40 points added to aptitude, or is 40 points added to the skill? My point is I don't think Hyper Linguist has a good answer and isn't unique in that regard. Unless one of the devs shows up and offers a fix, you'd be better off making a house rule.

gurps has a side bar called something like "intensive training" that really goes in depth about how certain processes work, and I think this might be applicable. The basic idea is, "easy come, easy go." Skills that you learn and train rapidly and extensively over a short period of time are often forgotten much more quickly than skills learned over time at a slower pace. So while a full day of immersion might make you fluent, the minute you left you would forget everything you learned just as quickly. That means there you will always need a day or two getting acclimated to a new language, and that most likely you will not be literate in that language. Further, it would make sense that you only have basic fluency, and are unable to communicate effectively about complex subjects such as technology, philosophy or religion.

Their all immortal though. Skip over it, to a degree. Write up some news to help show the passage of time.