The powerful magic of life might be based on one essential tool which is language. Perhaps the most important event in a child’s life is the realization that everything has a name. Everything that has to do with language is excessive and mysterious, it is both transcendental and routine. Language with its complexity, its effective-ness, its wonderful logic, its wild richness explodes inside the mind like a firework and it has the capacity to lead love, amuse, comfort, and also to terrorize, conf ...