It's NBC (with a strange accent on the B). Thus the peacock crest over the building Stephen assumes is the newspaper (it's actually City Hall).
Most of the time Stephen can pass. It's the language that trips him up. He learned the Vulpin of a slave (and the Gi Foarese of an epic writer), and he's learning the Commedien of an ordinary citizen. So he speaks in his shaky Commedien most of the time (and writes mostly in Gi Foarese), but when this one chance encounter with a shopkeeper forces him to have a conversation in Vulpin, it reinvigorates some of those old habits and mannerisms he's been trying to unlearn.
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It's NBC (with a strange accent on the B). Thus the peacock crest over the building Stephen assumes is the newspaper (it's actually City Hall).
Most of the time Stephen can pass. It's the language that trips him up. He learned the Vulpin of a slave (and the Gi Foarese of an epic writer), and he's learning the Commedien of an ordinary citizen. So he speaks in his shaky Commedien most of the time (and writes mostly in Gi Foarese), but when this one chance encounter with a shopkeeper forces him to have a conversation in Vulpin, it reinvigorates some of those old habits and mannerisms he's been trying to unlearn.