Ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-oo!

I wonder why Henry Higgons and Colonel Pickering are so interested in listening to people talk. I also wonder how they trained themselves to be able to tell the difference in dialects. It's pretty cool if you ask me, and slightly creepy. If I knew their talent I would be a bit intimidated to speak in front of them. I think it is so cool how they can tell a person's orgin, even down to the very street they live on. Again, kind of creepy. But this talent could also come in handy, perhaps to tell if someone was lying or impersonating someone. This leads me to a very important question, is it this rare skill that makes Higgons so arrogant, or Higgon's arrogance that drove him to acquire this skill?