Pedro Carolino

English as She is Spoke (eBook, ePUB)

or A Jest in Sober Earnest

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book was intended as a Portuguese-English conversational guide or phrase book, but is regarded as a classic source of unintentional humour, as the given English translations are generally completely incoherent. The humour appears to be a result of dictionary-aided literal translation, which causes many idiomatic expressions to be translated wildly inappropriately. Mark Twain said of 'English as She Is Spoke' that "Nobody can add to the absurdity of this book, nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dancing Unicorn Books
• Seitenzahl: 40
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781515441755
• Artikelnr.: 58291449

Autorenporträt

English as She Is Spoke is the only published work by Pedro Carolino, and it is confidently presumed that he did not actually speak English. He appears to have attempted to enhance the appeal of his book by appending the name of famous language scholar José da Fonseca.