Summary: Fury contemplates what it means that Thor speaks "All Speak"
All Speak
When Thor described to Fury the way he traveled between realms, he had spoken in vague descriptions and metaphors. Even when in the recordings they had of Thor's conversations with Dr. Jane Foster, the descriptions had been vague, more inspirational than actually useful. And yet, Foster had been entranced.
Some of his SHEILD analysts had dismissed her as merely infatuated with a good-looking man. She was considered a crackpot who just happened to stumble across something real. The general consensus had been that she just didn't have that much of a personality so there wasn't much point in spending too much time analyzing her motives and thoughts… especially when they differed from that of the analysts.
Times like that were when Fury thought SHEILD needed to be destroyed for being too stupid to survive rather than just for the Hydra infiltration.
Thor spoke something called All Speak.
Fury had tested it by sending various agents Thor's way to speak to him in different languages. They all reported back that Thor never even paused. He didn't appear to even notice that language changes, but his own response was always in whatever language the agent used. Even when the agent was switching from language to language. Even in recordings, Thor's conversation was always comprehensible to any listener.
What was particularly interesting was how the nuances changed based on the background knowledge of the user. Every agent had trouble actually transcribing the conversation into specific words but when forced to do so, they wrote slightly different things. When one agent heard Thor reference the Bifrost Bridge, agent with some basic physics knowledge heard "Einstein-Rosen Bridge", an agent with more linguistics experience heard "Rainbow Bridge" and another who liked science fiction perhaps a bit too much heard "wormhole."
It all made Fury wonder: what did Dr. Jane Foster, a genius who lived and breathed astrophysics and quantum physics to the near exclusion of all else, hear when Thor spoke to her?