Bibliograph

English as She is Spoke, or A Jest in Sober Earnest

Type

Label

English as She is Spoke, or A Jest in Sober Earnest

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

English as She is Spoke

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

or A Jest in Sober Earnest

Summary

This book was, intended as a Portuguese-English conversational guide or phrase book, but is, regarded as a classic source of unintentional humor, as the given English translations are generally, completely incoherent. The humor 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

Target audience

adult

Classification