Books author - "Pedro Carolino"
Description In 1855 Pedro Carolino set out to write an English phrasebook for Portuguese travelers visiting England. The only problem was that he couldn’t speak English. Undeterred by this minor setback, Carolino decided to base his guide on a respected Portuguese–French phrasebook written by José da Fonseca. He took the French translations of Portuguese, and used a French–English dictionary to translate those to English. The result was an unintentional comedy of literal translation, as English
cafico | Heuth-cock Calander | Whoop Stor | Pea cock Yeung turkey | Pinch Red-Breast, a robinInsects-reptiles. Asp, aspic | Fly Morpion | Butter fly Serpent. Fishes and shell-fishes. Calamary | Large lobster Dorado | Snail A sorte of fish | Wolf Hedge hog | Torpedo Sea-calf. Trees. Lote-tree lotos | Service-tree Chest nut-tree | Jujube-tree Linden-tree. Flowers. Anemony | Mil-foils Blue-bottle | Hink Turnsol. Hunting. Hunting dog | Picker Relay dog | Gun-powder Hound dog | Priming-powder
Description In 1855 Pedro Carolino set out to write an English phrasebook for Portuguese travelers visiting England. The only problem was that he couldn’t speak English. Undeterred by this minor setback, Carolino decided to base his guide on a respected Portuguese–French phrasebook written by José da Fonseca. He took the French translations of Portuguese, and used a French–English dictionary to translate those to English. The result was an unintentional comedy of literal translation, as English
cafico | Heuth-cock Calander | Whoop Stor | Pea cock Yeung turkey | Pinch Red-Breast, a robinInsects-reptiles. Asp, aspic | Fly Morpion | Butter fly Serpent. Fishes and shell-fishes. Calamary | Large lobster Dorado | Snail A sorte of fish | Wolf Hedge hog | Torpedo Sea-calf. Trees. Lote-tree lotos | Service-tree Chest nut-tree | Jujube-tree Linden-tree. Flowers. Anemony | Mil-foils Blue-bottle | Hink Turnsol. Hunting. Hunting dog | Picker Relay dog | Gun-powder Hound dog | Priming-powder