English as She is Spoke
or A Jest in Sober Earnest
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Publisher Description
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.
GENRE
Humor
RELEASED
2019
November 18
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
40
Pages
PUBLISHER
Dancing Unicorn Books
SELLER
National Book Network
SIZE
4.4
MB
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