That's Some Accent You Got There

Even though Tod is the only native Commonthroat speaker among the missionaries, his Moony accent makes it difficult for others to understand him at times. The other missionaries are L2 speakers who learned by consuming media from the AW as pups and with formal schooling later, giving them a more standardized accent. Tod’s friends joke that they speak Commonthroat better than him, and if you define "better" as being closer to a high prestige standardized dialect, then they're technically right.