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100 1 _aFonseca, José da,
_d1788-1866
245 1 0 _aEnglish as she is spoke; or, a jest in sober earnest
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2009
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_She_Is_Spoke
500 _aRelease date is 2009-11-07
508 _aProduced by Doran Gaston
520 _a"English as she is spoke; or, a jest in sober earnest" by Fonseca and Carolino is a Portuguese-English phrase book published in 1855. Intended as a practical conversational guide, it became instead a legendary monument to hilariously mistaken translation. The author appears to have used a French-English dictionary to translate a Portuguese-French phrase book, producing absurd results like "raining in jars" and "to craunch a marmoset." Mark Twain declared it perfect in its unintentional comedy, noting that "nobody can add to the absurdity of this book." (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aErrors and blunders, Literary
653 _aEnglish language -- Conversation and phrase books -- Portuguese
700 1 _aCarolino, Pedro
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30411
999 _c71257
_d71257