Resena: I Never Knew There Was a Word For It
A compendium that includes three of the author's acclaimed books about language - "The Wonder of Whiffling", "The Meaning of Tingo" and "Toujours Tingo".

The first two parts, the Tingo books, are collections of non-English words that encapsulate a particular thought or reflect ideas that are important in culture-specific ways. The books were triggered when the author discovered that the Albanian language has twenty-seven words for eyebrow and a similar number for types of moustache. Clearly facial hair is important in Albanian culture.
The Meaning of Tingo and Toujours Tingo

In these books de Boinod collects vocabulary from hundreds of languages and dialects including colloquial usage. The reader can delight in complete ideas summed up in a word or phrase such as “gemas”, an Indonesian word for “ a feeling of finding something or someone so cute that you want to squeeze or pinch it”. Obviously it is an invaluable phrase.

Idioma: INGLES
Categoría: Lengua y Literatura,

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