During The Colloquy of the Dogs, written some time between 1590 and 1612, Miguel de Cervantes wrote what appears to be a thinly veiled, prescient critique of George Will. Read on (and substitute "write" for "speak", "the poor slobs who attempt to wade through his attempts at prose" for "a shoemaker or tailor":
BERGANZA. There are some whose native language is Spanish, but who in their conversations let fly every so often with a concise bit of Latin, by way of giving their listeners to understand that they are great Latin scholars, whereas the the truth is they can scarcely decline a noun or conjugate a verb.
CIPON. In my opinion they are not as bad as some of those who really do know Latin and who, in speaking to a shoemaker or tailor, pour it out like water.
BERGANZA. From that we may infer that he who speaks Latin in front of those who do not know it is as much to blame as he who pretends to know it but does not.
CIPON. There is another thing of which I remind you, and that is that a knowledge of Latin does not keep a man from being an ass.
BERGANZA. There is no doubt of it, as plainly to be seen when one recalls that in the time of the Romans Latin was spoken by everybody as his mother tongue, yet there must have been some blockhead among them who was a fool for all of that.