"My apologies. I should have been more clear." It doesn't make much of a difference to her. She knew what she had meant and he answered her question with enough information that she had understood him.

"My Earth has many different languages. How fortunate you are that you may be the only person capable of reading what you wrote." If past experience has taught her anything she knows that whatever had just been written is probably not a voluntary confession.

"How long have you been here?"