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  • 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)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 224,591 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Tedious Tingo, 28 Nov 2007
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.
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33 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars All made up?, 15 Dec 2005
I bought this book as a present and only had a short look. The first German word I came across was "fisselig". Being a native German speaker I am not aware of its existence. I am not aware of a word in German that means "flustered to the point of incompetence" either. Should the expressions be known only in small areas of a country so that the "average" native does not know them I think it should be stated. Also, some of the other expressions are very outdated and unlikely to be familiar to many native German speakers.
I agree that books about language can be very entertaining and we Germans do have words the rest of the world doesn´t seem to have ("Schadenfreude" being an excellent example). However, I wonder about the existence and the definitions of the non German words in the book.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Puzzled by the rave reviews, 28 Nov 2007
I picked up this book for the first time couple of days ago and I can't understand why it gets such rave reviews. To me, to such a books sounds like a good idea, but when you actually produce it you get bored after the first few pages. I know its not meant to be read through at one go, but for me it's just a Xmas stocking filler book that you give some one when you can't think of anything else to give them - everybody feigns delight when they get it but are bored within seconds if they actually read it. It's a miss in my book.
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