English as she is spoke or, a jest in sober earnest
English as she is spoke or, a jest in sober earnest

English as she is spoke or, a jest in sober earnest

English as she is spoke; or, a jest in sober earnest"EVERY one who loves a laugh," says...
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English as she is spoke or, a jest in sober earnest

English as she is spoke or, a jest in sober earnest

$106.34 $53.15
English as she is spoke or, a jest in sober earnest

English as she is spoke or, a jest in sober earnest

$106.34 $53.15
Author: Carolino, Pedro
Format: eBook
Language: English
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English as she is spoke; or, a jest in sober earnest

"EVERY one who loves a laugh," says Fun, "should either buy, beg, borrow, orwe had almost said stealthis book; for in sober earnest we aver that it is not given to every one to 'jest so.'" FROM the time of Shakspere 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 perpetrateat his own expensethe 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." ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 30411
Author: Carolino, Pedro
Release Date: Nov 7, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Contributor (Author): Fonseca, José da, 1788-1866


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