"Putting a pin in something to follow up on later," Keltham says, after the few seconds it takes for him to think the compact version of the thought. "Detect my Wisdom, if it's 20 that's very bad news for your heritage optimization project and makes my heritage substantially more valuable. If my Wisdom is 14 that's much better news for you. Underlying reasoning behind that statement is gonna take a whiteboard though."
"Do Wishes by any chance need to be spoken in a strange inhuman language?" Wreaking total havoc if you state things the least bit incorrectly seems obviously reminiscent of bare-metal systems programming.