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100 1 Jacot de Boinod, Adam.
245 14 The meaning of tingo and other extraordinary words from
around the world /|cAdam Jacot de Boinod.
250 First American edition.
264 1 New York :|bPenguin Press,|c2006.
300 x, 209 pages :|billustrations ;|c19 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
505 0 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?
520 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.
650 0 Language and languages|xForeign words and phrases.
653 0 Philology-Linguistics
653 0 Lexicography
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