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Title: Toujours Tingo: Extraordinary Words to Change the Way We See the World
Author: Adam Jacot de Boinod
ISBN: 0140515860
EAN: 9780140515862
336 Pages
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Binding: Hardcover
Publication date: 2007-11-01

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

An extraordinary book, exploring the areas where English fails us... try these weird and wonderful words on for size.

It's hard not to like a book that has tongue-twisters in nine languages.

Drawing on the collective wisdom of over 300 languages, Toujours Tingo has discovered all kinds of actions and objects, tastes and noises that English simply doesn't have the vocabulary for. We've all met a layogenic (Tagalog - a person who is only good-looking from a distance), a jayus (Indonesian - someone who tells a joke so unfunny that you can't help laughing), and a mouton enragé (French - someone usually calm who loses their temper).

The Meaning of Tingo was a hit bestseller, appeared on the Jonathan Ross Show and inspired a round of questions on University Challenge. Toujours Tingo offers an eccentric guide to life through thousands of surprising new words and facts that Adam Jacot de Boinod has gathered from all round the world ... Whether you are physiggoomai (Ancient Greek - excited by eating garlic) or knedlikovy (Czech - rather partial to dumplings), there are riches here to charm and amuse everyone ...

Did you know, that in Germany a young man with suspiciously good manners is called Tantenverf rhrer (literally, aunt seducer), that in Namibia there is a word for walking on tiptoe through warm sand or that, in Welsh, gwarlingo is the rushing sound a grandfather clock makes before striking the hour. Whether you are physiggomai (Ancient Greek - excited by eating garlic) or knedlikovy (Czech - rather partial to dumplings) there are words here to charm and amuse everyone. Drawing on the collective wisdom of over 280 languages and packed with charming illustrations, "Toujours Tingo" is the perfect book for anyone interested in words, language or the world around them.

The Meaning of Tingo, Adam Jacot de Boinod's bestselling collection of bizarre and brilliant words from around the world, was acclaimed as:

`Absolutely delicious' Stephen Fry

`A luscious list of linguistic one-liners' Daily Express

`Very funny' Independent on Sunday

Now he's back with far more, from gwarlingo (Welsh - the rushing sound a grandfather clock makes before striking the hour ) to magimiks belong Yesus (Tok Pisin - a helicopter) to Tantenverführer (German - a young man with suspiciously good manners). Oh, and Tingo is an Easter Island word meaning to borrow objects from a friend's house one by one until there are none left ...

Adam Jacot de Boinod's interest in foreign languages was first aroused when doing research for the BBC programme QI and subsequently developed into a full-on vokabulyu (Russian - a passion for foreign words).

After the success of The Meaning of Tingo, he was close to becoming a szakbarbár (Hungarian - a crank who can think of nothing but his subject, not to mention
beròhina (Malagasy - perplexed by hearing strange dialects), but ended up choi lu bù (Vietnamese - having round after round of fun).

He is now intending to nglayap (Indonesian - wander far from home with no particular purpose).

All languages have evocative expressions for being drunk...

sternhagelvoll (German) full of stars and hail

rangi-changi (Nepalese) slightly too multi-coloured

etre rond comme une bille (French) to be as round as a marble

redlos (Swedish) free ride

andlar cacheteando la banqueta (Mexican Spanish) to go along with one's cheek on the pavement

...and for the inevitable results of overdoing it...

khukhurhuteka (Tsonga, South Africa) to walk uncertainly, as a drunk man among people seated on the floor

midabodaboka (Malagasy, Madagascar) to fall over frequently, as drunken men or people on a slippery road

mawibi (Ojibway, North America) drunken weeping

Backhendfriedhof (Austrian German) a beer belly (literally, cemetary for fried chickens)

ne govori ou samoi muzh piatnisa (Russian) a shrug of understanding when sharing someone else's problems (literally, no need to explain, my husband is a drunk)

2008-02-23 Factually Deficient

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.