"Y'know, I think your standards for what's annoying, and mine, are very different," Shepard tells him, openly amused. If he thinks this is what obnoxious sounds like, he's certainly never had to listen to a pair of squadmates bicker their way through a mission, usually right in Shepard's ear. The magic of modern commlinks, "So you were a soldier."

It's a question, or perhaps more of an offer.

"Where you from, Claude?"