Adam Jacot de Boinod
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- Jacot
- Geburtstag
- 1960
- Geschlecht
- male
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- UK
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- London, England, UK
- Ausbildung
- Harrow School, London, England, UK
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- Peter Straus
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- Adam Jacot de Boinod first acquired his vokabulyu (Russian for 'a passion for foreign words') while working as a researcher for the BBC program QI. While searching through 280 dictionaries, 140 Web sites and innumerable books on language, he developed a textbook case of samlermani (Danish for 'mania for collecting'), became close to being fissilig (German for 'flustered to the point of incompetence') and narrowly avoided karoshi (Japanese for 'death from overwork'). He is now intending to nglayap (Indonesian for 'wander far from home for no particular purpose'), but for the moment lives in London. (from The Meaning of Tingo, 2005)
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