Twain also poked some fun at French, when he found a translation of his first successfully published story and mapped it back to English. "The Jumping Frog: in

Twain also poked some fun at French, when he found a translation of his first successfully published story and mapped it back to English. "The Jumping Frog: in English, then in French, and then Clawed Back into a Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Celebrated_Jumping_Frog_of_Calaveras_County#Translations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Celebrated_Jumping_Frog_of...