English as she is spoke

topic posted Thu, September 22, 2005 - 5:53 AM by  Alyssum
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There's a fantastic book, a phrasebook, written in 1855 by a man named Pedro Carolino who endeavored to write a portuguese-English phrasebook despite the fact that he knew no English. He did, however, possess a portuguese-french dictionary and a french-english dictionary. I read it and start crying laughing! Some pearls:

SERVANTS: coochman, spenth, cup bearer, master of the horse, postilion, woman who irons linens.

PARTIES A TOWN: The arsenal, The inn, The public-house, The sink, The ditches, The low eating house, The obelis-ks, The squares places.

EATINGS: Some fritters, Some jelly broth, some wigs, a dainty-dishes, a litle mine, hog fat, some marchpanes, an amelet, a pottage, vegetables boiled to a pap.

QUADRUPED'S BEASTS: lamb, ass, shi-ass, ass-colt, aries, ox, cat, kid, roebuck, hog, bitch, dragon.

FISHES AND SHELL-FISHES: bleak, shad, anchovy, barbel, sea fish, dorado, a sorte of fish, gudgeon, herring, hedge hog, wolf.

COLOURS: white, blue, crimson, scarlet, cray, gridelin, yellow, black, red, green, musk.

FAMILIAR PHRASES:At what purpose have say so?,
At what o'clock is to get up?,
Put your confidence at my.,
Amuse you to cull some flowers.,
These apricots and these peaches make me and to come water in mouth.,
These shades are very agreeably.,
That are the dishes whose you must be and to abstain.,
It must never to laugh of the unhappies.

(to be continued...)
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Alyssum
Kentucky
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  • Re: English as she is spoke

    Thu, September 22, 2005 - 11:16 AM
    where do you find these fantazstic treazures!!?????

    from bagpipes to crazy phrase books
    • Re: English as she is spoke

      Thu, September 22, 2005 - 12:08 PM
      Yes, this book is a gold mine...
      • Re: English as she is spoke

        Thu, September 22, 2005 - 12:09 PM
        We must have more!
        • Re: English as she is spoke

          Thu, September 22, 2005 - 12:40 PM
          because you demand so fetchingly,....

          (bear in mind, there are no typos by my hand...this is how the book (same as the title of this thread, available from mcsweeny's
          store.mcsweeneys.net:443/index.cfm ) was printed way back when!!!

          more FAMILIAR PHRASES:
          This portrait is a little flatted.,
          It is a noise which to cleave the head.,
          Tell-me, it can one to know?,
          Give me any wafer.,
          Exculpate me by your brother's.,
          To morrow hi shall be entirely (her master) or unoccupied.,
          Listen'to, como hither.,
          She are both very fine.,
          Come us in this thicket?,
          She do not that to talk and to cackle.,
          Avoid the idleness.,
          Efface this word.,
          There is planty fruits.,
          He laughs at my nose, he jest by me.,
          He has spit in my coat.,
          He does me some kicks.,
          He bigins to be in years.,
          He is in good health, that is the principal.,
          He is tears.,
          It pinchs me enough.,
          It nurst to retouch its.,
          He burns one's self the brains.,
          He pursue him lively.,
          It don't arrive you nothing.,
          He do the devil at four.,
          He was fighted in duel.,
          He does kill him poniard blow's.,
          He has taken very much her mesures.,
          I starve, i stifle thirst.,
          Till say-us.,
          I should kill-you to the blows with a stick.,
          I dei of heat.,
          I como to drink.,
          I como your hause.,
          I decamp me there.,
          I came too fas thun him.,
          I have pains on to concieve me.,
          I have put my stockings outward.,
          I have croped the candle.,
          I have the shivering.,
          I will a bed room.,
          I will not to sleep on street.,
          I am catched cold in the brain.,
          I am pinking me with a pin.,
          The door is shurt.,
          I cannot to stayme.,
          I report me at this you tell me.,
          I am not to silly.


          (then there are 20 more pages of FAMILIAR PHRASES followed by FAMILIAR DIALOGUES, ANECDOTES, and IDIOTISMS AND PROVERBS.)

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