A lime-green pencil resting across a pink teacup and saucer, with a small white flag hanging from one end against a lavender background.

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Buffy

Oh, no...I have to go take an English make-up exam. They give you credit just for speaking it, right?

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What it means

Our 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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