"Makes sense. I have that when I speak English normally," he answers with a smile. Might as well go with something that has some basis in reality, right? He's curious what sorts of other dialects he'll hear here, and where those people will actually be from.

"I'm not from Oslo myself, for the record. Though I've lived there for well over a decade," he adds. Since she won't be able to guess from his dialect if she can't actually hear it.