Liguistics as a branch of philosophical inquiry has made many claims to universality and its relationship to meaning. Thinking as the essential factor underlying philosophical inquiry has also made such claims expressed through elaborate metaphysical schools of thought. However, the relationship between language and thought is one of the most basic to understanding the meaning in human existence. The perennial question "what is it for a linguistic expression to have a certain meaning" and the wider perspective question "does language form thought" are both areas of this fascinating venture we shall embark upon.