"Well, if there's no particular time constraint, I could always slowly work it into the existing curriculum," he says, thoughtful. "The two languages use the same alphabet for the most part, so it isn't as if you'd be starting from scratch. Though the tricky part about Orlesian if you want to speak it is that a lot of the letters are evidently decorative, since they indicate nothing about pronunciation."

Spoken like a man who learned how to read Orlesian years before he heard anyone speak it, and was very confused when he finally did.