Search

Home > Speculative Grammarian Podcast > They Don’t Have a Word for It
Podcast: Speculative Grammarian Podcast
Episode:

They Don’t Have a Word for It
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:01:42
Publish Date: 2011-02-10 07:30:01
Description: They Don’t Have a Word for It; Book Announcement from Psammeticus Press; From Volume CLVII, Number 4 of Speculative Grammarian, December 2009. — With the inexplicable success of pseudo-lexicons such as Howard Rheingold’s 2000 “They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrases”, C. J. Moore’s 2004 “In Other Words: A Language Lover’s Guide to the Most Intriguing Words Around the World”, and Adam Jacot de Boinod’s 2005 “The Meaning of Tingo: And Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World”, a native speaker of English could get the sinking feeling that English lacks the basic expressiveness needed to convey the most basic human needs and desires. (Read by Trey Jones.)
Total Play: 0