"Lingo" purports to be a book about the whimsy of language, but I frequently found that Dorren is just kind of a dick. There's a huge ethnocentrism here about languages that are worth it and ones Dorren finds pointless, thereby discarding a lot of the potential for information and good-faith ribbing. Tons of promise here, tons of failed execution as the writer gets in the way of the message. Ironic for a book about language.