"I was accepting responsibility for tracking that on my end, yes." This culture wants him to be having facial expressions all the time, but fine Esta will do that and just make sure he's doing it consciously. "Assume a corresponding deficit on my own side with respect to your own equipment. I now have no more idea of how you cut off my protective suit, or the purpose and operating principles of an electrocardiogram unit, than, I expect, you have of how I produced the food on that table. You should eat that, by the way, it's bland but fully nutritious and you have clearly not been eating enough, Merrin."
(And for a moment he is sounding, speaking, and behaving exactly like Estha.)