Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: 0330281216
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Douglas Adams, John Lloyd - The Meaning of Liff: The Original Dictionary Of Things There Should Be Words For
Pan Books / Faber and Faber -
191 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

The Meaning of Liff #1

In life and, indeed, in liff, there are many hundreds of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no words exist. This text uses place names to describe some of these meanings.

The book is a `dictionary of things that there aren`t any words for yet`. Rather than inventing new words, Adams and Lloyd picked a number of existing place-names and assigned interesting meanings to them, meanings that can be regarded as on the verge of social existence and ready to become recognisable entities.

All the words listed are toponyms and describe common feelings and objects for which there is no current English word. Examples are Shoeburyness (`The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat that is still warm from somebody else`s bottom`) and Plymouth (`To relate an amusing story to someone without remembering that it was they who told it to you in the first place`).

The book cover usually bears the tagline `This book will change your life`, either as part of its cover or as an adhesive label. Liff (a village near Dundee in Scotland) is then defined in the book as `A book, the contents of which are totally belied by its cover. For instance, any book the dust jacket of which bears the words, `This book will change your life`.`


Nonfiction, Humor. 0330281216