Adam Jacot de Boinod
Auteur de The Meaning of Tingo: And Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World
A propos de l'auteur
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Œuvres de Adam Jacot de Boinod
The Wonder of Whiffling: And Other Extraordinary Words in the English Language (2009) 31 exemplaires
El significado de Tingo 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Jacot
- Date de naissance
- 1960
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
- Études
- Harrow School, London, England, UK
Cambridge University - Agent
- Peter Straus
- Courte biographie
- Adam Jacot de Boinod first acquired his vokabulyu (Russian for 'a passion for foreign words') while working as a researcher for the BBC program QI. While searching through 280 dictionaries, 140 Web sites and innumerable books on language, he developed a textbook case of samlermani (Danish for 'mania for collecting'), became close to being fissilig (German for 'flustered to the point of incompetence') and narrowly avoided karoshi (Japanese for 'death from overwork'). He is now intending to nglayap (Indonesian for 'wander far from home for no particular purpose'), but for the moment lives in London. (from The Meaning of Tingo, 2005)
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- Œuvres
- 5
- Membres
- 966
- Popularité
- #26,651
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 15
- ISBN
- 22
- Langues
- 9