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What is The Deeper Meaning of Liff about?

Does the sensation of **Tingrith**(1) make you yelp? Do you bend sympathetically when you see someone **Ahenny**(2)? Can you deal with a** Naugatuck**(3) without causing a **Toronto**(4)? Will you suffer from** Kettering**(5) this summer?Probably. You are almost certainly familiar with all these experiences but just didn’t know that there are words for them. Well, in fact, there aren’t—or rather there weren’t, until Douglas Adams and John Lloyd decided to plug these egregious linguistic **lacunae**(6). They quickly realized that just as there are an awful lot of experiences that no one has a name for, so there are an awful lot of names for places you will never need to go to. What a waste. As responsible citizens of a small and crowded world, we must all learn the virtues of recycling(7) and put old, worn-out but still serviceable names to exciting, vibrant, new uses. This is the book that does that for you: *The Deeper Meaning of Liff*—a whole new solution to the problem of **Great Wakering**(8)1—The feeling of aluminum foil against your fillings.2—The way people stand when examining other people’s bookshelves.3—A plastic packet containing shampoo, mustard, etc., which is impossib

Author

Adams, Douglas, Lloyd, John

Publisher

Crown Archetype

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307238740