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The title’s a pun on a legendarily bad English phrasebook English as She Is Spoke: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/pedro-carolino_jose-da-fonseca/english-as-s
by robin_reala 8mo ago
The title’s a pun on a legendarily bad English phrasebook English as She Is Spoke: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/pedro-carolino_jose-da-fonseca/english-as-she-is-spoke https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/pedro-carolino_jose-da-fon...
- andrepd 8mo agoAll your base, but in 1855 Portugal instead of 1991 Japan.
- KineticLensman 8mo agoE.g. with phrases such as "Let us go and respire the air" (which I am now keen to use in an actual conversation)
- kqr 8mo agoThe reason for this choice is explained in the article. It is a highly apt analogy.