[Even despite his fatigue, Liem finds a smile lifting the corner of his mouth at Konoha’s clear bewilderment. He’s not familiar enough with her language to know how complicated the characters can get, but clearly, even for a short word like this one, she was expecting something more involved.]
That’s right. Simple, yes? “We” is very short, too. Here, you might like to know that one…
[Again, he taps it out on the keyboard: two letters, this time. He could probably go through every pronoun that came to mind and not encounter anything she’d find especially complicated, but he assumes the more words he throws at her all at once, the more difficult it will be for her to memorize which spelling is which.]
I didn’t mean that you need to come up with all the words you’d like to know right know, anyway. I’m sure it’d be simpler to single out useful ones as they come up, and ask me then. I don’t mind.
[He supposes that he might not reply right away if he’s busy, but in this land, he’s rarely so busy that he can’t take 30 seconds to explain the meaning of a written word, or the spelling of a spoken one.]
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That’s right. Simple, yes? “We” is very short, too. Here, you might like to know that one…
[Again, he taps it out on the keyboard: two letters, this time. He could probably go through every pronoun that came to mind and not encounter anything she’d find especially complicated, but he assumes the more words he throws at her all at once, the more difficult it will be for her to memorize which spelling is which.]
I didn’t mean that you need to come up with all the words you’d like to know right know, anyway. I’m sure it’d be simpler to single out useful ones as they come up, and ask me then. I don’t mind.
[He supposes that he might not reply right away if he’s busy, but in this land, he’s rarely so busy that he can’t take 30 seconds to explain the meaning of a written word, or the spelling of a spoken one.]