A series of dialogues offers practical guidance on spoken language and social conduct, stressing clarity and a measured balance between prolixity and excessive brevity. It critiques ornate or obscure phrasing, warns against overconfidence and careless or untimely remarks that may offend listeners, and urges attention to audience and context when using foreign terms or recounting distant stories. The conversation also examines polite naming practices and the risks of gossip, then treats salt as a metaphor for wit and grace that enlivens conversation, adding cultural and natural reflections on its preserving and symbolic properties.