"No doubt," there was more gratitude there, in his soft huff, than wry amusement, though both were making a marked effort to be there, "to make for a fitting companion to Igs. But I'm sure you can sympathize with how much of challenge words can be, once they start gaining syllables past one..."

Forget the fact that Gladio was easily one of the most well-read people that Ignis knew. This was hardly about the man's actual intelligence...