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Oh, no...I have to go take an English make-up exam. They give you credit just for speaking it, right?
— Buffy
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An editorial interpretation.
A comically sheepish plea: the speaker has to sit an English make-up exam and hopes that simply speaking the language will earn some credit. The joke is the hopeful loophole, the notion that using English fluently should count for something in a test about it.
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