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Originally conceived as a Portuguese-English phrase book, this literary curiosity was written by an author who, remarkably, spoke no English. With the help of a pair of dictionaries, Pedro Carolino translated a series of expressions from his native Portuguese into French and from French into English. The result is a volume of unintentional hilarity, praised by Mark Twain in his appreciative Introduction for its miraculous stupidities." Imagine the Portuguese traveler, with this book in hand, offering grooming tips, " Dress your hairs ," making polite dinner conversation, " Like you the soup? " and inviting an acquaintance to take a walk, " Let us go to respire the air ." The collection is organized into sections of familiar phrases, familiar dialogues, and familiar letters -- which might not strike the native English speaker as particularly familiar, concluding with a selection of humorous anecdotes. As Twain observed, "In this world of uncertainties, there is, at any rate, one thing which may be pretty confidently set down as a certainty: and that is, that this celebrated little phrase-book will never die while the English language lasts. Its delicious unconscious ridiculousness, and its enchanting naïvete are as supreme and unapproachable, in their way, as are Shakespeare's sublimities.".

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HUMOR / Topic / Language.

English language -- Conversation and phrase books -- Portuguese.

Errors and blunders, Literary.

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Electronic books.

其它责任者

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910,

Container of (work): Fonseca, José da, 1788-1866. Novo guia da conversação em Portuguez e Inglez. Selections.

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Print version: Carolino, Pedro. English as she is spoke. Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 2018. 9780486829326 (DLC)2018024040

标准号

9780486835006

国际标准书号

9780486835006 (epub)