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    English as She is Spoke: The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English
    English as She is Spoke: The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English
    English as She is Spoke: The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English
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    English as She is Spoke: The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English

    By Pedro Carolino and Jose da Fonseca

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    What happens when someone who doesn’t speak English attempts to write a Portuguese-English phrasebook? THIS is what happens.

    "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

    “[T]he second chapter is titled ‘Familiar Phrases,’ and features sentences intended to help the weary Portuguese traveler in everyday conversation. These phrases include classics like ‘He has spit in my coat’; ‘take that boy and whip him to much’; and the oft-used ‘these apricots and these peaches make me and to come water in mouth.’ – Tucker Leighty-Phillips, Atlas Obscura

    “[T]he book migrated to literary circles in London, where it became the Victorian equivalent of a viral video. Friends passed it to friends who giggled over — even then — unintentionally sexual phrases such as, ‘He do the devil at four.’ – Mike Drucker, Splitsider

    "Is there anything in conventional English which could equal the vividness of 'to craunch a marmoset'?” – Stephen Pile

    Watersgreen House is an independent international book publisher with editorial staff in the UK and USA. One of our aims at Watersgreen House is to showcase same-sex affection in works by important gay and bisexual authors in ways which were not possible at the time the books were originally published. We also publish nonfiction, including textbooks, as well as contemporary fiction that is literary, unusual, and provocative. watersgreen.wix.com/watersgreenhouse

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWatersgreen House
    Release dateJan 28, 2018
    ISBN9781370015412
    English as She is Spoke: The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English

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      English as She is Spoke - Pedro Carolino

      English as She

      Is Spoke

      or

      The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English

      (O novo guia da conversação em

      portuguez e inglez)

      By Pedro Carolino

      and José da Fonseca

      With an Introduction by JAMES MILLINGTON
      Edited by Michael Wilson

      © 2016 Michael Wilson & Watersgreen House

      All rights reserved. International copyright secured.

      BISAC: Humor / Topic / Language

      Cover art by Louise Rayner.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without prior written permission of both the copyright holder and the publisher. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or any other means without permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Purchase only authorized editions.

      Typeset in Sylfaen.

      Publication history:

      In 1853, J. P. Aillaud Monlon e Ca of Paris published a Portuguese–French phrase book titled O Novo guia da conversação em francês e português by José da Fonseca. In 1855, the same company published a Portuguese–English phrase book titled O Novo Guia da Conversação, em Português e Inglês, em Duas Partes (literally, The new guide to conversation, in Portuguese and English, in two parts), with authorship attributed to José da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino.

      In 1883, the book was published in London as English as She is Spoke. The first American edition, published in Boston, also came out this year, with an introduction by Mark Twain.

      A second American edition was published in 1884 by D. Appleton & Co., 1, 3, & 5 Bond Street, New York.

      In 2002, the first Brazilian edition was published by Casa da Palavra, Rio de Janeiro.

      Watersgreen House international edition published July 2016.

      What happens when someone who doesn’t speak English attempts to write a Portuguese-English phrasebook? This is what happens.

      Reviews

      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

      "[T]he second chapter is titled ‘Familiar Phrases,’ and features sentences intended to help the weary Portuguese traveler in everyday conversation. These phrases include classics like ‘He has spit in my coat’; ‘take that boy and whip him to much’; and the oft-used ‘these apricots and these peaches make me and to come water in mouth.’ – Tucker Leighty-Phillips, Atlas Obscura

      "[T]he book migrated to literary circles in London, where it became the Victorian equivalent

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