Ives' clever wordsmithing is profoundly on display in"The Universal Language", where a timid, stuttering woman, (Jenn Harris), visits the nutty instructor (Elrod) of a classinthe artificial language he calls Unamunda.
In an English-language class, Mohammad Bakhtiari stood in front of his pupils and discussed the architecture of thelanguage: sentence structure, the formation of paragraphs, the conjugation of verbs.