You are sitting in your French class, listening to the professor speak. Class is just about to begin.

Suddenly, the door bursts open, and a short young man with messy green hair runs in, stopping next to you. He seems to have been running all the way there, because he’s panting and looks a bit disheveled. He looks down at you and says, all in one breath,

Hi, I’m Patrick. Can I sit here?

The way he said it, it came out sounding more like “hiimpatrickcanisithere”