Etimologías para sobrevivir al caos

Words shape our idea of ??the world. When we choose a term carefully we put a certain order in the chaos, and that is also a nice way to take care of ourselves. A poor, imprecise, insipid, and flat speech reflects equivalent thinking. How to escape the bewilderment of indefiniteness? How to regain the meaning of things? Andrea Marcolongo draws an etymological atlas full of surprises that takes us to the origins of our history, reveals who we have been and invites us to think about who we want to be. Exploring the roots of terms, savoring their nuances, being amazed at the displacements they have suffered through the centuries and places is equivalent to tracing the evolution of our reading of the world. The art of reconstructing etymologies is therefore anything but sterile: it is an end in itself. From what far place has each word traveled before reaching us? What other landscapes have you traveled, influencing other languages ??and shaping yourself in turn? Perhaps there is no better lesson about our essence than that offered by these travelers whose survival depends on evolution, mixing and movement.