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The Meaning of Tingo: and Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World

Adam Jacot de Boinod




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 | #751365 in Books |  2006-03-16 |  2006-03-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.32 x.91 x5.80l, | File type: PDF | 224 pages

||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating, with only one caveat.|By Jerry|I loved the idea of this book, but found its structure not very enjoyable. I'd wanted simply an exploration of words that only exist in one language, and some insight into what that might say about a particular culture, i.e. why a word only was needed by those who coined it. But with only that small complaint, I would still recommend|.com |What began as a fortuitous discovery, when BBC researcher Adam Jacot de Boinod noticed that an Albanian dictionary contained 27 different words each for eyebrows and mustache, has become, after his obsessive 18-month journey through hundreds of foreign di

A garden of delights for the word obsessed: a funny, amazing, and even profound world tour of the best of all those strange words that don't have a precise English equivalent, the ones that tell us so much about other cultures' priorities and preoccupations and expand our minds.

Did you know that people in Bolivia have a word that means "I was rather too drunk last night and it's all their fault"? That there's no Italian equivalent for the word "blue"? That the ...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Meaning of Tingo: and Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World   |  Adam Jacot de Boinod. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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