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Title: The Deeper Meaning of Liff : A Dictionary of Things That There Aren't Any Words for Yet, but Ought to Be by Douglas Adams ISBN: 0-517-58597-9 Publisher: Harmony Books Pub. Date: 28 September, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hilarious fun for an Anglophile
Comment: As said previously, this book (and the sibling) are hilarious fun for anglophiles and wordsmiths alike...
Rating: 5
Summary: Deeper meaning of LIFF
Comment: The book has become a bible to live a NORMAL life Knowing there are others out there who are sane but strange
Find the Yahoo club site "LIFF AS WE KNOW IT" to wallow in humour. Then send your own efforts (ie photo's and new WORDS)
Rating: 4
Summary: Save the language - recycle place names!
Comment: The idea behind The Meaning of Liff, first published in 1983, as well as The Deeper Meaning of Liff, which followed seven years later, is actually quite simple. As the authors put it: there are hundreds of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no word exists. On the other hand, the world is littered with thousands of spare words doing nothing but loafing about on signposts pointing at places.
Douglas Adams - the one of the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy fame - and John Lloyd have done their best trying to pair the two. Just for the gusto, here's an example of dictionary entry: Wyoming (ptcpl.vb.) Moving in hurried desperation from one cubicle to another in a public lavatory trying to find one which has a lock on the door, a seat on the bowl and no brown streaks on the seat.
Although The Deeper Meaning of Liff is significantly expanded in size over the original, I guess I would choose the latter. While The Meaning of Liff mostly covers place names from the Britain, the expansions seem to be predominantly reaching abroad, resulting in somewhat diluted compendium. After all, there is some logic that English place names are fitting best in an English dictionary, isn't it?
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Title: Meaning of Liff by Outlet ISBN: 0517553473 Publisher: Random House Value Pub Pub. Date: 07 March, 1984 List Price(USD): $2.99 |
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Title: Last Chance to See by Mark Carwardine, Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine ISBN: 0345371984 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 13 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Adams ISBN: 0671746723 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time by Douglas Adams ISBN: 1400045088 Publisher: Harmony Books Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams ISBN: 0671742515 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 15 February, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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