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Biting the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic Paperback - 2008
by Elizabeth Little
In this delightful language scrapbook ("Chicago Tribune"), Grammar fanatic Little delivers an irresistible field guide to the hilarious and sometimes unbelievable quirks and oddities that abound in the world's languages.
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What can Johnny Cash's lyrics teach us about the little-known Tangut dialect? Is 'tabernacle' really a swear word in Quebecois? Which language has absolutely no verbs? What is Earth's politest insult? And what is biting the wax tadpole actually a translation of?Prepare for a hilarious rollercoaster ride through hundreds of well-known, obscure, difficult, dead and even made-up languages. Elizabeth Little has waded through innumerable verb tables in every available mood and tense, untangled up to eighteen cases of noun, and wrestled with all kinds of complicated adjective, participles and glottal stops to bring you the best and most bizarre quirks of the ways people communicate all around the globe.From the language that has no different word for 'blue' or 'green', to why Icelanders need official permission to name their children, from what makes a Korean TV hit to what people might think you're saying if you order eggs in Spain, Biting the Wax Tadpole will ensure you're never lost for words again.Coca-Cola, would you believe it?
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- Title Biting the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic
- Author Elizabeth Little
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1 Reprint
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Random House, New York
- Date 2008-11-11
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780385527743 / 0385527748
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.26 x 7.18 x 0.51 in (20.98 x 18.24 x 1.30 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Language and languages
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008012180
- Dewey Decimal Code 400
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