In the ‘Ndrangheta trials in the North it has already happened several times: hearing suspended, due to the need for a translator. But to understand the most powerful mafia in Italy (and not only), not only the understanding of the Calabrian dialect is needed, but rather the knowledge of its most ancestral codes. And this is meant to offer Say and not say ,the last essay written by Nicola Gratteri and Antonio Nicaso: the decoding of the tables of the law of the Calabrian bosses. Through their words. “The ‘Ndrangheta is a criminal organization that has no problem doing business with people of all races and nations”, but which “is getting cleaner.” In these statements by two collaborators of justice, there is the programmatic spirit of a mafia that from the poorest region of Italy has built an international empire, putting into practice the fifth commandment , ” cumandari è megghiu chi futtìri “: