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If U want it? It's 4 sale ok If U need 2 ask ask 
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Funnily enough, this is actually a real book, created by real publishers. English as She is Spoke was written by a Portuguese man in the nineteenth century as an attempt at a Portuguese-English phrase book, despite the fact that the author, Pedro Carolino, had never heard English or traveled to an English speaking country. He did it by rote translation from Portuguese-English dictionaries and countless hours spent writing sheer and utter nonsense. Futility Closet did a podcast on it, and it includes several excerpts from the book, many of which make no sense at all. https://www.futilitycloset.com/2015/05/18/podcast-episode-58-english-as-she-is-spoke/ The Wikipedia article also has some info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_As_She_Is_Spoke
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugli_fruit Know your Jamaican citrus, man
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freeedr posted:Know your Jamaincan citrus, man ftfy 
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PCOS Bill posted:I bet he wears skinny jeans every day What does PCOS stand for?
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Nov 2, 2016 05:36
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Bill cares deeply about women's health issues.
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Nov 2, 2016 05:41
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Good on ya bill
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Nov 2, 2016 06:44
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TotalLossBrain posted:Bill cares deeply about women's health issues. It's a pun
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please cum on stan
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PCOS Bill posted:It's a pun No puns allowed in the funny pictures thread 
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PCOS Bill posted:It's a pun Explain how women's medical issues are involved in your pun though.
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Nov 2, 2016 07:47
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i always assumed PCOS had something to do with computer code the more you know i guess
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PCOS Bill posted:It's a pun I find it disturbing that you had to explain that.
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Khazar-khum posted:I find it disturbing that you had to explain that. Why? I'd never heard of Pecos Bill until someone explained PCOS Bill's username one time.
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Nov 2, 2016 10:06
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Ditto. Also...Boneitis posted:
Portugese: Quem cala consente. Translation: That not says a word, consent. Intended phrase: Silence is consent. Next time someone talks about how better things were in the past, remind them that this was apparently common enough to appear in a phrasebook.
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Nov 2, 2016 11:48
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Something for a man for all seasons, I'd wager.
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Buckets posted:If U want it? Please tell me they are doing a 2017 calendar for next year. By the time I heard of the 2016 one they were sold out.
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Nov 2, 2016 12:19
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Elfface posted:Ditto. Also... There's a Latin proverb "Qui tacet consentire videtur, ubi loqui debuit ac potuit" (He who is silent, when he ought to have spoken and was able to, is taken to agree). It's pretty much related to All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
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Nov 2, 2016 12:20
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Elfface posted:Next time someone talks about how better things were in the past, remind them that this was apparently common enough to appear in a phrasebook. "..." (Three hours later) "Hm. Ok. Silence is consent, I guess." There's massive scope for the use that expression outside of any rapey context.
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Nov 2, 2016 12:26
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I love that book and the poor translations 
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Lost it at Torpedo.
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"Welcome to Phishy Phil's! What can we catch for you today?" "I'd like some wolf, and she'll have a platter of shelled hedgehog." marshmallow creep has a new favorite as of 13:34 on Nov 2, 2016 |
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Nov 2, 2016 13:32
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Aren't some whales closely related to wolves, which is probably represented in their Latin name, and thus the weird translation? And torpedo as a word has it's origins in fish so I can get that one. But hedge-hog? maybe a sea urchin thing?
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Nov 2, 2016 13:36
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My Lovely Horse posted:Lost it at Torpedo. A torpedo is actually a fish though, where did you think the name of the thing that goes bang comes from?
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Nov 2, 2016 13:37
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Trades. Starch-maker Barber Coffeeman Porkshop-keeper Cartwright Tinker, a brasier Nailer Porter Chinaman Founder Grave-digger Tradesman Stockingmender Lochsmith Defects of the body. A blind A left handed A lame An ugly A bald A squint-eyed A deaf
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goddamnedtwisto posted:A torpedo is actually a fish though, where did you think the name of the thing that goes bang comes from? assumed invented by maybe a john or jane torpedo.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:A torpedo is actually a fish though, where did you think the name of the thing that goes bang comes from? But this guy was referring to the sandwich, see, and
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Trades.
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Boneitis posted:Funnily enough, this is actually a real book, created by real publishers. English as She is Spoke was written by a Portuguese man in the nineteenth century as an attempt at a Portuguese-English phrase book, despite the fact that the author, Pedro Carolino, had never heard English or traveled to an English speaking country. He did it by rote translation from Portuguese-English dictionaries and countless hours spent writing sheer and utter nonsense. Futility Closet did a podcast on it, and it includes several excerpts from the book, many of which make no sense at all. Better than that, he actually took a Portuguese-French phrasebook and translated it with a French-English dictionary, so there's an extra language between the Portuguese and English.
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Nov 2, 2016 14:28
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I'm a fan of "A sorte of fish" in the fish listing.
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tiercel posted:Better than that, he actually took a Portuguese-French phrasebook and translated it with a French-English dictionary, so there's an extra language between the Portuguese and English. Was any part of this book in portuguese though? Like I"m imagining a korean phrasebook written entirely in an english phoenetic transliterated hangul and what the gently caress am I supposed to do with this? I can't even comprehend the categories on each page? This book only exists to make people in the native language laugh at it.
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Nov 2, 2016 15:41
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Phrasebooks vary in style but this one was poorly made, the sections you're not seeing (at the front of the original book) contain the Portuguese. All the images on the internet of it are from reprints that omitted those for the purposes of mockery.
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dpack_1 posted:But hedge-hog? maybe a sea urchin thing? Possibly a porpoise, which means sea-hog in latin? More obvious in its older name mereswine. To confuse matters further, in some European countries both porpoises and guinea pigs are called marsvin/meerschwein/etc.
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dpack_1 posted:But hedge-hog? maybe a sea urchin thing? Got it in one: "ouriço do mar" = "hedgehog of the sea" = sea urchin. Same in German: "Seeigel."
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dpack_1 posted:Aren't some whales closely related to wolves, which is probably represented in their Latin name, and thus the weird translation? Their closest relatives are even-toed ungulates, they're pretty distantly related to carnivores. Orcas are often called wolves of the sea, though.
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Also lobos do mar, which is Portuguese for seals, literally wolves of the sea. For they howl, you see.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Petite feet. A feminine step, you could say. Please stop trying shoehorning your weird fetishes into every conversation, it's distracting.
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I love the Videlectrix guys! Did you see their new video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ7-TKdt9BU
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Mock the Cross posted:Please stop trying shoehorning your weird fetishes into every conversation, it's distracting. It's okay, I laughed 
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