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Original Title:	The Deeper Meaning of Liff
ISBN:	0307236013 (ISBN13: 9780307236012)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Meaning of Liff #2

The Deeper Meaning of Liff (The Meaning of Liff #2)

Douglas Adams

Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

Rating: 3.93 | 4614 Users | 118 Reviews

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Title	:	The Deeper Meaning of Liff (The Meaning of Liff #2)
Author	:	Douglas Adams
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	April 19th 2005 by Three Rivers Press (first published 1990)
Categories	:	Humor. Nonfiction. Comedy. Humanities. Language. Reference

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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 impossible to open except by biting off
the corners.

4—Generic term for anything that comes out in a gush, despite all your efforts to let it out carefully, e.g., flour into a white sauce, ketchup onto fish, a dog into the yard, and another naughty meaning that we can’t put on the cover.

5—The marks left on your bottom and thighs after you’ve been sitting sunbathing in a wicker chair.

6—God knows what this means

7—For instance, some of this book was first published in Britain twenty-six years ago.

8—Look it up yourself.

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I will admit it, if anyone else had written an entire book of definitions that they then attached to the strange names of towns, and cities, there is no way I would have read it, but this, this is written by Douglas Adams, possibly my favorite writer ever. The definitions he invents are so perfect it made me wonder why we don't actually have a word for most of them. It was a fun book to read, and it made me sad to know that he was no longer with us.

A lot of entertaining definitions attached to repurposed place names.Only a handful of these pairings work. For the most part, the names are not suitable for their definitions, so you're best off ignoring them and just reading this as a list of "things for which there should already be words".

Im surprised that I didnt love Douglas Adams THE DEEPER MEANING OF LIFF: A Dictionary of Things That There Arent Any Words For Yet. I certainly adored his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.Ely (n.) The first, tiniest inkling that something, somewhere, has gone terribly wrong.It seems that this book was really aimed at adolescent boys who find bodily functions amusing. There were many definitions that I laughed at but it was disheartening to find that there were outdated references and all

Much of the same content as the The Meaning of Liff. While I like the idea of the earlier book as a pocket dictionary, I preferred the standard book format of this one, which also included a few humorous drawn pictures.

A dictionary for things that don't have classifications or words. This is the book I read when I get home from work and need to just lie down and read the most ridiculous but hilarious shit. Love Douglas Adams. Grobister: One who continually and publicly rearranges the position of his genitals.Ossining: Trying to see past the person sitting in front of you at the cinema.Darvel: To hold out hope for a better invitation until the last possible moment.

I will admit it, if anyone else had written an entire book of definitions that they then attached to the strange names of towns, and cities, there is no way I would have read it, but this, this is written by Douglas Adams, possibly my favorite writer ever. The definitions he invents are so perfect it made me wonder why we don't actually have a word for most of them. It was a fun book to read, and it made me sad to know that he was no longer with us.

So, what DA and JL did was to take actual place names and make up fake definitions for them.For me, it was kind of an iconic bookification of funny but not haha funny.But even though I didnt laugh out loud very much, and sometimes contemplated quitting in the middle, there were two great things about this book.1. Sometimes, they really, really came up with concepts that we really do need words for.2. Sometimes, the words they chose really, really sounded like the made up definition.3. Sometimes,