…One of those moments, again… How to give personal information without lying, when being accurate stopped being the instinct long ago. (If it ever was because he never knew.)
When deciding to learn this language, it had come with some geographic research, as matter of course. He'd discovered that many of its local speakers were (as this woman first guessed) Mexican; and in various markers, including speech, that would be how he'd most easily be seen, and how he'd best identify if he needed a Terrestrial cover (because no matter that he's not planning any such thing, of course his mind won't stop automatically logging such detail).
But he's trying not to lie. And the longer, beyond all expectation, he keeps succeeding, the more fervently he wants to see how much longer it can last.
"You won't have heard of it," he said. "I wasn't raised there anyway; I mimicked my father's accent as a kid. (Pero entonces…) What about you?"
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When deciding to learn this language, it had come with some geographic research, as matter of course. He'd discovered that many of its local speakers were (as this woman first guessed) Mexican; and in various markers, including speech, that would be how he'd most easily be seen, and how he'd best identify if he needed a Terrestrial cover (because no matter that he's not planning any such thing, of course his mind won't stop automatically logging such detail).
But he's trying not to lie. And the longer, beyond all expectation, he keeps succeeding, the more fervently he wants to see how much longer it can last.
"You won't have heard of it," he said. "I wasn't raised there anyway; I mimicked my father's accent as a kid. (Pero entonces…) What about you?"