Temperance was quite intelligent, a genius if you asked her. Or many times if you don't ask. However, she wasn't all that bright. There was so much she didn't understand. Especially people. She honestly didn't ever want to look too hard into it, what people thought or felt. She preferred a life where you just tried to make sense. When you started delving into things that didn't, you hit emotions and how most of the time, they didn't make sense either. Sadly that left Tempe with a big gap in her knowledge. Particularly in sarcasm, pop culture, and humor. Not that she didn't have a sense of humor but that it wasn't exactly shared with others.
Such was the case right now. Her laugh was brief as she noticed the woman not laughing. Oh well, she thought it was funny! As long as she got directions she would be fine and would leave the woman in peace as she went over what information she could find and perhaps start putting things together in some sort of semblance of sense. If the woman was dressed out of place, she wouldn't know it. Tempe never paid much attention to such things. Well not unless she truly knew the person and could tell they were dressed completely different from usual. Of course that meant knowing them well enough to know what usual was.
"Well, I am a forensic anthropologist. It's my job to study the past, mostly through the bodies and bones of those that lived in that time. You, you think you are from Ancient Rome?"
Oh there it goes again. Still, Booth said that this would happen, also that they still considered it an insult to be questioned. With a quick close of the eyes her posture shifted and her shoulders dropped. "I'm, sorry. I am still, learning about all of this and the people. I, deal in facts and it's hard to assume those without evidence. But yes, I know Latin. It's the basis of most other languages and especially those terms that are used in science. I, believe that it should be taught in all schools at a very young age. Instead of allowing children to choose a language that may have no valid use in their lives and only when they are older and their brains not as capable of learning new languages. I'm, Temperance Brennan. Can I, buy you a coffee? It would be interesting to learn more about what you know of the time period you claim to be from."