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A carregar... The Meaning of Tingo: And Other Extraordinary Words from Around the Worldpor Adam Jacot de Boinod
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. nach Kategorien unterteilt: Wörter aus anderen Kulturen, weil du schon immer wissen wolltest, wie man eine Frau nennt, die von hinten toll aussieht, aber nicht so von vorne: BAKKU-SHAN, die Japaner scheinen sich da auszukennen ( ) L'idea di per sé è molto carina: raggruppare un bel numero di parole di lingue straniere che esprimono in breve quello che a noi richiede invece un giro di parole. Ad esempio, in giapponese per indicare il rumore di una macchina che gira quietamente al minimo basta dire "sa". Peccato che questo libro soffra di due problemi. Il primo è che alla lunga tutti questi elenchi di parole stufano, e quindi bisogna centellinarselo con calma per evitare l'indigestione; ma a questo si può anche ovviare. Purtroppo, però, resta il fatto che questo libro è basato sull'inglese, e quindi ci sono sezioni, come quella dei falsi amici, che sono poco utili (non per colpa della traduttrice Marina Sirka Mosur, lo dico subito). D'altra parte ci sono delle chicche mica male, come una lista di tutti i termini eschimesi relativi alla neve! Ah: "tingo" è un'espressione in rapa nui che significa "prendere in prestito un oggetto dopo l'altro dalla casa di un amico, fino a svuotargliela". It's not so much the words (which as many reviewers have pointed out, are often used out of context) as much as the idea that a certain sentiment/idea/situation happens often enough in a certain culture for it to merit an actual word. It's like The Meaning of Liff, only real. Better check with a native speaker first, however, before throwing any of these around. I love how certain Filipino words made it here: "magandang hinaharap" (meaning both "a bright future" and "big breasts"), "dangkal" (a handspan) and "layogenic". But where are "gigil" and "kulit"? Small quibble: The Chinese could have been written in pinyin, to make it easier for me to have the words verified. More like this online. The good stuff is in the comments section. A delightful book for people interested in language and trivia. I found myself copying down words and phrases to incorporate into my vocabulary, including the Persian sanud, "the exercise of the mind upon an unprofitable subject"; the Japanese phrase suna o kamu yo na, "like chewing sand"; and the Indonesian desus, "a quiet and smooth sound as someone farting but not very loudly." I was kind of disappointed that there was no scatological section however; I know Pennsylvania Dutch (the language of the Amish) has a fine word meaning "globules of poop that get caught in your pubic hair." sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Did you know that people in Indonesia have a word that means 'to take off your clothes in order to dance'? Or how many words the Albanians have for eyebrows and moustaches? Or that the Dutch word for skimming stones is plimpplamppletteren? Drawing on the collective wisdom of over 154 languages, this intriguing book is arranged by theme so 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 the Japanese age-otori which means looking less attractive after a haircut), but also a frank discussion of exactly how many 'Eskimo' terms there are for snow, and a vast array of information exploring the wonderful and often downright strange world of words. Oh, and tingo means 'to take all the objects one desires from the house of a friend, one at a time, by asking to borrow them'. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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