Terrible...I see. I will work on understanding more of human wordplay. That attempt did not sound right, even to me...

[one day he'll learn how to badly speak jive. but today is not that day. But since they're seemingly out of vowels for the time being, common consonants will have to do.]

Hm...then I shall choose "T". I think we have been making suitable progress.

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