Don't take this personally, but for starters, it might have helped prevent your little homonym problem.
Actually learning Latin, as in being able to hold a conversation in it, is probably overkill. But making an effort to understand Latin's influence on modern languages will make one a better writer and speaker. Good writing is always respected, and good writers typically have better jobs. Being misunderstood through lack of language skill equals failure, and poor language skills are often perceived, fairly or not, as lack of intelligence.
Of course, that hilarious
Life of Brian scene was written to satirize the obligatory Latin courses the Python members took themselves as English schoolboys. But look where Latin got them!
"Romani ite domum" indeed.
milliHelen: amount of beauty required to launch one ship.