I don’t think he’s bullshitting, I think all of them are true. They all are Venice in ways Calvino saw it. The point about language is that Polo and Khan aren’t

I don’t think he’s bullshitting, I think all of them are true. They all are Venice in ways Calvino saw it. The point about language is that Polo and Khan aren’t even actually able to communicate the dialog as written, they don’t understand each other verbally.