β Scribed by Adam Jacot De Boinod
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A garden of delights for the word obsessed: a 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"? This collection of trivia from more than 254 languages also includes a frank discussion of exactly how many Eskimo words there are for snow. So, what in fact is "tingo"? In the Pascuense language of Easter Island, it's to take all the objects one desires from the house of a friend, one at a time, by asking to borrow them. Well, of course it is.--From publisher description.;Meeting and greeting -- From top to toe -- Movers and shakers -- Getting around -- It takes all sorts -- Falling in love -- The family circle -- Clocking on -- Time off -- Eating and drinking -- Below par -- From cradle to grave -- Otherworldly -- All creatures great and small -- Whatever the weather -- Hearing things -- Seeing things -- Number crunching -- What's in a name?
Language and languages -- Foreign words and phrases
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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 Bolivi
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\