January 15 Prompt: Any, any, languages, written for Around the World in 80 Days.
From the first there was a great deal of attention paid to this journey. Papers for the normal classes eagerly described a man of magic making so extraordinary a journey by such ordinary means; those catering to the uncanny featured articles no less passionate than logical by experts of every discipline, employing all their arcane runes and parlance, which when translated for the general English readership amounted to near universal agreement that it was absurd if not impossible.
"But if anyone is to do it, better it to be a numerologist," argued the centenarian Mage Albemarle, a grand practitioner in that art who made his point in the language best understand by the entire populace, vis-à-vis a handsome sum staked in favour of Mr. Fogg.
