"That's right," she said, remembering now. "Effie's...enthusiastic, like that." This careful choice of words was less an attempt to avoid insulting the woman, cameras or no, and more a failure of Momoko to think of a more appropriate word to describe Ms. Trinket.

"The language translators, that make so we speak the same thing mostly," she waved a hand vaguely, indicating her complete lack of understanding and interest in the way the technology worked. "It translates things out loud, so I hear you speaking Japanese right now, but not things written down. I don't know how to read...English? I think it's English. Only Kanji and some French."