β Scribed by Adam Jacot De Boinod
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A divine gift for the word-obsessedβa deliciously eccentric world tour of words that have no English equivalent The countless language freaks whoβve 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 βI was rather too drunk last night and itβs all their faultβ? As for tingo, on Easter Island it means βto take all the objects one desires from the house of a friend, one at a time, by borrowing them.β Organized by themes such as food, the human body, and sex and love, this irresistible book combs through more than 254 languages in search of those gorgeous oddities that have no direct English counterpartβwords so strange and apt that if they didnβt exist, they would have to be invented. Highlights from The Meaning of Tingo: β’ mencomet (Indonesian): stealing things of small value such as food or drinks, partly for fun β’ scheissbedauern (German): the disappointment one feels when something turns out not nearly as badly as one had hoped β’ mono-no-aware (Japanese): appreciating the sadness of existence β’ mahj (Persian): looking beautiful after disease β’ plimpplamppletteren (Dutch): the skimming of a flat stone as many times as possible across the surface of the water β’ koshatnik (Russian): a dealer in stolen cats β’ ava (Tahitian): wife (but also means whisky)
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: \*\*A divine gift for the word-obsesseda deliciously eccentric world tour of words that have no English equivalent\*\* The countless language freaks whove worn out their copies of \*Eats, Shoots and Leaves\* will find inexhaustible distraction in \*The Meaning of Tingo\
EDITORIAL REVIEW: \*\*A divine gift for the word-obsesseda deliciously eccentric world tour of words that have no English equivalent\*\* The countless language freaks whove worn out their copies of \*Eats, Shoots and Leaves\* will find inexhaustible distraction in \*The Meaning of Tingo\
EDITORIAL REVIEW: \*\*A divine gift for the word-obsesseda deliciously eccentric world tour of words that have no English equivalent\*\* The countless language freaks whove worn out their copies of \*Eats, Shoots and Leaves\* will find inexhaustible distraction in \*The Meaning of Tingo\
The final installment in the Extraordinary Series! Cannot be read as a standalone! Book one is Anything But Extraordinary, book two is A Life Less Extraordinary. This is the third and final book in the Extraordinary Seriesβrelease date is January 11th, 2018. Special Pre-order Pricing