Sounds like Gen. Napier was quite a linguaphile. And while I have your attention, here is an update on A.Word. This includes Linguaphiles from some 46 countries. The newest countries to be represented here are Luxembourg and Egypt. Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Children aren't happy without something to ignore. And that's what parents were created for. The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that they haven't attempted to contact us.