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The Meaning of Tingo: and Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World
Adam Jacot de Boinod
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| #1717588 in Books | 2007-02-27 | 2007-02-27 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.10 x.60 x5.08l, | 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 divine gift for the word-obsessed—a deliciously eccentric world tour of words that have no English equivalent
The countless language freaks who’ve worn out their copies of Eats, Shoots and Leaves will find inexhaustible distraction in The Meaning of Tingo. Where else will they discover that Bolivians have a word that means "I was rather too drunk last night and it’s all their fault"? As for tingo, on Easter Island i...
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 have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
