[He's fielding a fair number of private calls today, and when he answers this one, he is expecting one he talked to recently over the Network. But the odd greeting throws him for a loop, and he wonders for a second if it's a colloquialism in a different language. He speaks almost a dozen fluently, so the process of elimination actually does take longer than it might if it was, say, two.]
[Private phone call]
...Lala? I beg your pardon? English...?