Powerful, empowering and most compassionate is this milestone book. If you have read the original book, "Language Codes" before, this one is is greatly expanded and much more thorough. Nelville takes you aside and shows you the pitfalls of some inconspicuous areas of our language like a master would. As a reader, you are going to feel the shedding of those sticky self-fulfilling phrases and decadent clich?s that have been since Gutenberg (or much earlier) strewn like landmines across the landscape of our consciousness. He delivers his points across so clearly and with great humor. I was amazed at how many traps he had unearthed concealed almost unwittingly within our language, particularly those expressions that often escape casual scrutiny right under our noses. The result for me is a restored sense of clarity and vision buttressed by a sense of improved mindfulness. I read this book non-stop in one solid day feeling very satisfied but more relieved as if I had received a good session of psychotherapy of a lifetime. Read what he says about "victimese"! 5 stars for Nelville for such expos? on a stellarly daunting semantic subject!