This book is about language, about words. You will go on an exciting expedition to find words, learn about how things and objects get their names, get acquainted with the laws and paradoxes of language... Source: php?tu003d6238911 TABLE OF CONTENTS: Instead of a preface (7). Word workshop (8). “Mysterious bewilderment” (16). Shortened! (21).In honor and on occasion (28).How do you want me to understand? (37). A word is born (43). On the question of authenticity (53). Without clan, without tribe (60). Au naturel (64). Resurrection from the dead (73). Wisdom in portable form (87). The emergence of phraseological units (99). Variations on a theme (109). A dozen fuchses (118). Doubles, not brothers (125). A motley family (133). In fancy dress (140). The Great Controversy (146). Translation costs (151) .The universal language of earthlings (?) (164).