He's not sure if he should feel at least a little bit vindicated for that or embarrassed about potentially getting in over his head. The turtlekin puffs out his cheeks as he folds his arms across his plastron.

"I figure if I'm going to be working on this kind of machinery then I should know the actual technical terms. I'm...not used to working alongside other people and everything I've learned is self-taught, so I can handle things fine on my own but if I'm helping other people out then they get all kinds of frustrated when I don't know what parts they're talking about."