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There is an occasional meme going around about how so many things we refer to have lost all mooring from any possible meaning. Who today knows how black pitch is, or has personally heard a broken record?But this is simply the story of language. If you write with a pen you are figuratively writing with a feather only because our ancestors once did so literally: The word comes from the Latin penna, that is, a feather.If you are interested specifically in how words are extended or refined to cover new concepts, you could start with the later chapter, Words and Meanings, but don’t miss out on the fascinating history of not just the English language but of attempts to define it back into the beginnings of writing, which, Heisenberg-style, also change the language. The authors do not hide their disdain for those who try to define the indefinable or freeze the unfrozeable.The authors make the book, which is dense with information, a fun read. It is written with a very subtle humor hidden among the masses of cultural changes that made English what it is today. There’s even a surprise finish, which I’ll not spoil here.If you have read Stanislaw Lem’s The Futurological Congress and wondered at his magical science of predicting the future from likely word changes, this is how it could be done. If you have some new thing and you want to build a name for it that will last, those last few chapters are invaluable.“It is a great pity that language cannot be the exact, finely attuned instrument that deep thinkers wish it to be… But it is probably quite safe to predict that the members of the human race, homines sapientes more or less, will go on making absurd noises with their mouths at one another in what idealists among them will go on considering a deplorably sloppy and inadequate manner, and yet manage to understand one another well enough for their own purposes.”
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