- Unknown Binding: 224 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (29 Sep 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140515615
- ISBN-13: 978-0140515619
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 13.6 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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Stephen Fry
A book no well-stocked bookshelf, cistern-top or handbag should be without.
The Economist, 24 September 2005
'The Meaning of Tingo' may well prove to be the must-have British stocking-filler for 2005
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fun and frivolous with surprises,
By Maccadee (London UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Meaning of Tingo: and Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World (Penguin Pockets) (Paperback)
This is great - very funny and educational, I love books you can dip into and get an interesting bit of info, like "nakhur - a Persian word for a camel that won't give milk until her nostrils are tickled" - OK I don't NEED to know that, but I find it an interesting insight into different cultures that would even consider creating such a word. Great book, and goes well with The Wonder Of Whiffling by the same author.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Meaning of Tingo
I'd read about this book in some of the press and was looking forward to getting it - what a disappointment. Sure there are some amusing words, but the vast majority you could not care less what they meant. After the first few pages it just starts to resemble a directory - and we all know how boring they are. Enough invention and amusement to carry a few pages but not a whole book in my view- but I guess its Christmas and that's when a lot of these tedious supposedly funny list books appear.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
The dangers of dictionaries,
By John (Conakry, Guinea) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Meaning of Tingo
The author doesn't seem to appreciate that there is more to understanding a langauge than looking words up in dictionaries. He is clearly no linguist.
I know the book is supposed to be fun, but many entries are either wrong or misleading. And whoever did the proofreading should be sacked.
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