Irina Levontina is a famous linguist, leading researcher at the Institute of Russian Language. V. V. Vinogradov RAS, author of dictionaries and brilliant articles, popularizer of linguistics, specialist in forensic linguistic examination. Author of the book “Russian with a Dictionary”, which became a finalist for the Enlightenment Prize in 2011, columnist of the newspaper “Troitsky Option - Science”. “What is it about” is a continuation of “Russian with a Dictionary”. This is also a collection of cheerful and vibrant essays about the life of the Russian language, about the changes that are taking place in it before our eyes. And, according to the author, her book is about “that language is inseparable from life. So much so that sometimes it is almost impossible to talk about him: you write about words, but readers vehemently object about life. Our life is saturated with language and is itself dissolved in it.”