The teacher, translator, and poet #YuzuruKatagiri writes that Henry Higgins, the linguist in #MyFairLady, was based on a man named #HenrySweet. The real linguist had advice for teaching languages and texts: "Be dull and commonplace". Maybe sharp, exciting things can distract from the language? With textbooks its the participants in the actual classroom that have to make the learning interesting. This is probably why people still use the plain line-drawings and 350-word #EP1 from 1945, #IAR