The Meaning off Tingo
The Meaning off Tingo is a book of Adam Jacot de Boinod published beginning 2006 in the form of dictionary.
The British author, , employed to write questions for radio games of the BBC, was interested in all the words suitable for only one culture, used for a quite precise situation.
This dictionary of linguistic curiosities breaks up into many topics which refer to a situation of the everyday life: the love, the manias of people, physical descriptions… thus it informs us of many words as for example this Japanese word who explains that a woman is beautiful sight of back but not face, or it gives us 50 manners to describe a moustache: out of hammer, with the Salvador Dali, at a peak, bulky…
To carry out this dictionary of curiosities, the author spent more than one year to be sought in 280 dictionaries and Internet sites and even to contact ambassadors to check the use of certain words. According to the author, it is through the words that one discovers a culture.
See too
Adam, Jacot de Boinod, The meaning off tingo and other extraordinary words from around the world , (London, Penguin, 2005: ; Penguin Near, New York, 2006: )
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