Lateral thinking puzzle

[wiltsman]

Can anyone help me?

I'm listening to local radio and trying to answer the following lateral thinking puzzle:

'A man walked into a bookshop and bought a book even though he couldn't understand a word of the language in which the entire book was written.'

Urgent answer required please!

[THEMOTLEY1]

But it stopped his coffee table wobbling!

[Fibonacci]

It is his Book which he wrote and it was translated and printed in another language. He was so proud of it that he shown it to all his friends

[Sqad]

He was buying it for someone else.........a foreigner.

[sherrardk]

It was in Braille and he was using it for a blind person.

[andrew1707]

A foreign language book.
He was buying a book in a foreign country.
A computer manual in a computer language he didn't know.
It was written in braille
He couldn't understand A (as in one) word in which ...etc

[jackthehat]

He was buying a book in Braille?

[andrew1707]

Sorry I type slowly

[rowanwitch]

It was for a foreign friend

He was buying a koran in arabic for the local courts

He liked the pictures

he'd taken the pictures


He was foreign but he fancied the girl behind the counter

It was the yiddish policemans union and Ed recommended it!

[mike11111]

All valid answers though I like the idea of not understanding just one word.

[wiltsman]

Thanks for the quick replies.

Motley, I already gave that answer which was not the right one, but thanks for your input.

Fibonacci, Absolutely correct - excellent. Only three people have come up with the right answer when I rang in just now! THANK YOU.

[Davethedog]

Is this the entire puzzle? There are obviously multiple answers.

[rowanwitch]

Actually the one word in it that the man couldn't understand well he couldn't even find it to be honest was Cilit Bang! oris

[wiltsman]

// It is his Book which he wrote and it was translated and printed in another language. He was so proud of it that he shown it to all his friends//

Dave - No, not multiple answers, just the one above given by Fibonacci. I agree with you that there should be others, but that's the rules of the radio station!

[Barmaid]

I'm going to be really pedantic here (and probably make myself look a total wally to boot), but the book was actually written in his native language. It was merely translated and PRINTED into the foreign language.

I'll get me coat.

[sir.prize]

So the copy of the book that he bought was PRINTED and not written. Therefore the question was worded wrongly.

I'll get me coat too!

[HowardKennitby]

the book was a dictionary