Umberto Echos - The Search for the Perfect Language

This is going to be the furthest thing from a complete history of the issue. The closest thing available for a general audience is Umberto Echos, the search for the perfect language. I'll cover some of the baseline ground level thought through time. We'll take a look at a few of the really influential people on the topic. But mostly we're going to focus on the extremities, the most funny, fascinating, and fucking awful attempts at deriving the mother tongue.