Tolkien Quote

If you are interested in Latin or inventing languages, then you will find this quote by Tolkien to be funny.

We were listening to somebody lecturing on map-reading, or camp-hygeine, or the art of sticking a fellow through without (in defiance of Kipling) bothering who God sent the bill to; rather we were trying to avoid listening, though the Guards' English, and voice, is penetrating. The man next to me said suddenly in a dreamy voice: 'Yes, I think I shall express the accusative case by a prefix!'

from the essay "A Secret Vice", J.R.R. Tolkien