This book is about language—about the word that embodies thought. You’ll embark on an exciting expedition for a word, take part in the ritual of naming things, meet words-deceivers, mistakes, and mystifications, explore the laws and lawlessness of language, the whims of our speech, translation curiosities, and trace the birth and life of words and expressions. Linguistic tropes will lead you to the land of “dead languages” and into the language workshops where a unified tongue for the inhabitants of Earth is being created.