"I... ah, hell." He had not just said eye ah hel. Different syllables entirely. If he wasn't directly understanding them they wouldn't have made any sense to him at all. Julien's head tilts. "I guess so. Well, that's a thing."

"What if I try to speak French?" He does have a distinct accent in French. "This seems to work. Bet it's like this with English and Espanol. Yeah. Well. I guess it's a carnival with horned workers and flying lights..."