Fractured English as She is Spoke: (A New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English) Book

Nobody can add to the absurdity of this book, nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect.-Mark Twain *** a selection from the INTRODUCTION: FROM the time of Shakespeare downwards, wits and authors innumerable have made themselves and the public more or less merry at the expense of the earlier efforts of the student of a strange tongue; but it has been reserved to our own time for a soi disant instructor to perpetrate-at his own expense-the monstrous joke of publishing a Guide to Conversation in a language of which it is only too evident that every word is utterly strange to him. The Teutonic sage who evolved the ideal portrait of an elephant from his "inner consciousness" was a commonplace, matter-of fact person compared with the daring visionary who conjures up a complete system of language from the same fertile but untrustworthy source. The piquancy of Senhor Pedro Carolino's New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English is enhanced by the evident bona fides and careful compilation of "the little book," or as Pedro himself gravely expresses it, "for the care what we wrote him, and for her typographical correction." *** a selection from the book: Familiar Phrases. Go to send for.Have you say that?Have you understand that he says?At what purpose have say so?Put your confidence at my.At what o'clock dine him?Apply you at the study during that you are young.Dress your hairs.Sing an area.These apricots and these peaches make me and to come water in mouth.How do you can it to deny?Wax my shoes.That is that I have think.That are the dishes whose you must be and to abstain.This meat ist not too over do.This ink is white.This room is filled of bugs.This girl have a beauty edge.It is a noise which to cleave the head.This wood is fill of thief's.Tell me, it can one to know?Read More