Reading the book btw and Grace also talks like that.
And he stops using the translation software after a while.
They just don’t understand each other’s grammar, so when they’re trying to communicate, Grace will literally say things like “no understand” or “astrophage on my star. Bad.” Admittedly, he does it less so than Rocky, but it’s established that Rocky’s better at learning and math and memory, so he learns English faster than Grace learns Eridian, and they both adapt to each other’s levels
ROCKY IS NOT STUPID!! PLEASE STOP depicting Rocky’s internal thoughts as the same ungrammatical speech just because it’s funny or cute. PLEASE I BEG OF YOU.















