19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, a hugely controversial figure on many levels in our times as back then, was a man of great sensitivity and depth of soul. One of his many interests was the relationship – or lack thereof – between language and the world. One of his convictions about this absent relationship was that language is man's way of creating a world apart from the real one. A world he can control and dominate. Language, Nietzsche seemed to think, sort of '