The Independent recently ran an entertaining review of Adam Jacot de Boinod’s new book The Meaning of Tingo: And Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World. “Learning a foreign language is, of course, the surest and fastest track to becoming familiar with another culture,” writes John Walsh. ” But the words themselves offer hundreds of revealing clues to the preoccupations of that culture. Everyone knows that Inuit-speaking races can call on 30-odd words … Read more »