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Toujours Tingo: Extraordinary Words to Change the Way We See the World (Hardcover)

by Adam Jacot de Boinod (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (1 Nov 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140515860
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140515862
  • Product Dimensions: 18 x 13.8 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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THE TIMES

Intriguing and wonderful... a fascinating insight into other cultures.


THE MIRROR

An extraordinary book, exploring the areas where English fails us... try these weird and wonderful words on for size.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Factually Deficient, 23 Feb 2008
By G. Haberkorn "Judge6" (Wiesbaden, Germany) - See all my reviews
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I can only repeat what I wrote on the first book: "Based on the fact that most expressions from my own language, German, were either very rare or completely new to me, and often inexplicably misspelled, I suspect similar problems in the entries for other languages. After all, the German entries suggest that the author is either careless, or inept, or simply misinformed. And why should he be so only when it comes to one language? In any case, should you want a book that gives you expressions actually used in other countries, this is probably not it." In that respect, the second book is really more of thesame, it seems.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute gem!, 1 Nov 2007
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This is a fascinating collection of weird and wonderful words from around the globe - my favourites have to be 'rhwe' from Tsonga, South Africa, 'to sleep on the floor without a mat, and ususally drunk and naked' and the Japanese 'nittoonna', 'a woman so dedicated to her career that she has no time to iron blouses and so resorts to dressing only in knitted tops'. Opens your eyes to a whole new world!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Fun but probably not very reliable, 19 Jan 2008
By G. Wake "gregwake" (Newcastle, UK) - See all my reviews
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I heard the author of this on the radio and the few snippets he quoted made the book sound interesting so I promptly ordered a copy. It is not as good as I had hoped, there are a lot of gaps in the text, there is no flow to the book and having checked some of the words used with native speakers of the respective languages some of the translations seem incorrect. Still, it's a fun read and some of the words and phrases are real gems: I especially like the chatup line "Do you kiss strangers? No? Then let me introduce myself..." This is more of a book to dip in and out of rather than to spend any length of time reading, its not well organised and has no index but it's fun all the same.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Amusing and enlightening
I have bought this book twice already and may yet purchase another for my own. I have given them both as presents, one recipient made no further mention of it and the other found... Read more
Published 5 months ago by M. Attard

5.0 out of 5 stars Broaden your mind and have fun at the same time
If you have any interest at all in the world outside your own and you're intrigued by language and languages, you'll enjoy these books (The Meaning of Tingo and Toujours Tingo) as... Read more
Published 21 months ago by P. Reid

1.0 out of 5 stars Full of mistakes
The author seems to have no knowledge of foreign languages. I spotted thirty mistakes in just the entries linked to French, German and Dutch.
Published 23 months ago by John

5.0 out of 5 stars World's Best Gift
Buy a dozen copies, and dispense them as Christmas presents to loved ones who have a linguistic bent. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Ellen

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