I love the idea of Grace occasionally habitually slipping into Rocky’s speech patterns, but I’m even more obsessed with the idea of Rocky (who likely had to modify his own language much more heavily for Grace and his translator to understand it) occasionally slipping into his “talking-to-Grace” pidgin around other Eridians.
Like, Rocky will come home one day and be like “Adrian have good day working on Grace habitat dome, question.”
And Adrian will just go, “Yes, dear. We’ve made some good progress on the lighting adjustments. I take it you paid the aforementioned Grace a visit this afternoon?”
And Rocky, switching back to standard Eridian speech patterns and positively dripping tonal indicators for affectionate sarcasm, is left to reply “However did you guess?”
(They both lose it laughing. This happens several times a week)
