Very good article. Very enjoyable. I always describe words as the ability to paint pictures in people's minds with 26 separate squiggles and a few dashes and dots. More in other languages of course. Language fascinates me tangentially because what I'm really intererested in is how stories work - and why stories work. As soon as we had words we had stories and as soon as we had stories, we had a way of conceptualising important things. How we get from grunting nouns to chess based metaphors is fascinating to me at every level. Thanks for a great article, consider yourself followed :o)