Oh, wait.... no... he just has EVERY Calvin & Hobbes comic memorized. He has the whole collection in a 3 volume hard-cover set, and evidently has spent a little time reading them. I showed it to him and he gave me the english translation with hardly a thought.
That is wonderful! I can't understand it, naturally, but Alex studied Latin in high school and spent three weeks one summer in Italy to study it. He'll get a kick out of this site, I'm sure. Thanks!