Jacot de Boinod Meaning ofTingo 9780140515619

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Автор: Jacot de Boinod
Название: Meaning ofTingo
Перевод названия: Что значит Тинго
ISBN: 9780140515619
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Классификация:

Образ жизни, спорт и досуг

Юмор

ISBN-10: 0140515615
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 192
Вес: 0.00 кг.
Дата издания: September 29, 2005
Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Did you know that people in Bolivia have a word that means I was rather too drunk last night and its all their fault? Or that the Albanians have twenty-seven words for moustache? Or that the Dutch word for skimming stones is plimpplamppletteren? Drawing on the collective wisdom of over 280 languages, this intriguing book is arranged by theme so that you can compare attitudes all over the world to such subjects as food, the human body and the battle of the sexes. Here, you can find not only those words for which there is no direct counterpart in English (such as pana poo in Hawaiian - to scratch your head in order to remember something important), but also those that sound confusingly the same (gin in Turkish means to dry out). Oh, and tingo is a Pascuense word from the Easter Islands meaning to borrow things from a friends house one by one until theres nothing left .

Meaning ofTingo, Jacot de Boinod