[Jake helps her. It would just be rude to force all the work on her!] Golly, I would love to! And likewise, you're free to partake of any of my sauce. I'm quite certain at this size, drinking all of it would be a foolhardy venture.
Haha, it's a deal! [Look at them rolling the beer can down the aisle, what an efficient team of tiny people!] Also, this might sound a little odd to bring up now, but I didn't know you could use 'sauce' that way! Is that common? [Listen, any opportunity to learn more English is one she's going to take.]
[Jake can't help a sheepish smile.] Ah yes my uh... way of speaking. It's actually slang from the 1920's. Have you heard tell of this retrospec business nosing in people's minds and giving them the old jiggery-pokery? Well, it decided to fill my previously perfectly average vocabulary like that.
[Tuuri immediately feels a little sheepish herself, now that she's calling attention to something embarrassing, and is halfway to an apology before she gets distracted by the chance to hear more about the Retrospec nonsense, because she can't get enough of it.] Wait, so it... changed the way you speak? That's so...
[She has no idea what 'jiggery-pokery' means but it's probably the best word she's heard in the English language so far. That probably isn't the appropriate reaction to have, though.]
...I don't even know what! I guess I have very little knowledge of English 1920s slang, sorry.
Oh no, it's not your fault! I had no knowledge of it, either. I just googled these words and found out. [Still, he doesn't mind filling her in more.] A friend of mine wound up knowing Russian and Japanese all of a sudden and now her English is a little shoddy. Before that, she only spoke English.
[Okay, however interesting 1920s slang might be from the outside, this latest factoid is such a mixed bag that she actually stops rolling the beer can for a second in surprise.] Wait, what? She learned two languages but lost her native one?! Oh my god, my brother would die. And then he would kill me.
[Wait, they were in the middle of rolling a can, weren't they... she puts her hands back on it with a quick.] Oops, sorry. I wouldn't mind learning new languages but losing old ones is terrible! My brother already thinks there's something wrong with me because I asked him how to say 'chocobo' in Finnish.
Still, though. I really can't understand how that would happen. [As if realizing how strange that sounds, she looks around at the towering grocery shelves around them, and grants] I mean, I guess all of this is absurd, so I don't know why this would be any different, but...
[It's because this latest thing sounds universally disruptive, whereas everything else has been at least a little bit cool.]
I guess I have to cross my fingers and hope I get lucky, huh? There's no way to... control it or anything like that?
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[She has no idea what 'jiggery-pokery' means but it's probably the best word she's heard in the English language so far. That probably isn't the appropriate reaction to have, though.]
...I don't even know what! I guess I have very little knowledge of English 1920s slang, sorry.
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[Wait, they were in the middle of rolling a can, weren't they... she puts her hands back on it with a quick.] Oops, sorry. I wouldn't mind learning new languages but losing old ones is terrible! My brother already thinks there's something wrong with me because I asked him how to say 'chocobo' in Finnish.
[and then, after a second]
In his defense, it's 'chocobo.'
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Ah, well, if it's any conciliation, her English is passable, just a bit broken sometimes. I don't know of anyone else it's happened to.
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[It's because this latest thing sounds universally disruptive, whereas everything else has been at least a little bit cool.]
I guess I have to cross my fingers and hope I get lucky, huh? There's no way to... control it or anything like that?