The Meaning of Tingo: And Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World (Taschenbuch) von Adam Jacot De Boinod   Rezensionen: 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 dictionaries, a very funny and genuinely informative guide to the world's strangest--and most useful--words. There are many books out there that invent, Sniglets-style, the words that the English language doesn't have but needs. WhatThe Meaning of Tingoshows is that, like natural cures waiting to be found in the plants of the rainforest, many of the words already exist, in the languages of the world's other cultures. Who couldn't find a use for "neko-neko," an Indonesian word for "one who has a creative idea which only makes things worse," or "skeinkjari," a term from the Faroe Islands for "the man who goes among wedding guests offering them alcohol"? Some words that Jacot de Boinod has found are bizarre--"koro," the "hysterical belief that one's penis is shrinking into one's body" in Japanese--while others are surprisingly affecting, like the Inuit word "iktsuarpok," which means "to go outside often to see if someone is coming." And then there's "tingo" itself, from the Pascuense language of Easter Island: "to take all the objects one desires from the house of a friend, one at a time, by borrowing them." Nearly any page you open to inThe Meaning of Tingopays hilarious tribute to the inventive genius of the world's peoples. LikeEat, Shoots & LeavesandSchott's Miscellany, with which it shares a quirky British charm and a gift-friendly look and size,The Meaning of Tingois a UK bestseller that by all rights should become equally popular in the States.--Tom Nissley The Man Who Swallowed 200 Dictionaries There is no word (that we know of) to describe someone who spends a year and half of their life poring through a library's worth of dictionaries in hundreds of languages, but that's exactly what Adam Jacot de Boinod did after a chance encounter with a heavy Albanian dictionary. Listen to ourinterview with the authorto hear just how he got started on this strange but fruitful journey, and what he hopes might be the usefulness of his light-hearted book in making us aware of the cultural riches in danger of being lost as the world's living languages become extinct nearly as quickly as its species. The Meaning of TingoLanguage Learning Lab Adam Jacot de Boinod has chosen a handful of his own favorite words fromThe Meaning of TingoClickhereto hear him pronounce and define the words, and start slipping them into conversation today! © 1998-2001 Amazon.com, Inc. und Tochtergesellschaften Alle Rezensionen ansehen...   Angebote zu  Meaning ,  Tingo ,  Extraordinary  ab 1 Euro! Siehe auch folgende Artikel: Was heißt hier Tingo. Und andere verrückte Wörter aus aller Welt von Adam Jacot de Boinod Lonely Planet's Guide to Experimental Travel: v. 1 (Lonely Plant Guide to Experimental Travel) von Rachael Antony Does Anything Eat Wasps? And 101 Other Questions (New Scientist) von Mick O'Hare Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (William Morrow) (rough cut) von Steven D. Levitt Home ...,    Angebote ansehen ...,    Begleitseite ... Herausgeber dieser Seite ist DomainLoc.com GmbH - Partner von Amazon.de Copyright © DomainLoc.com GmbH (Impressum)