While taking a shit a few minutes ago, I read from a book, one of many that rests by my throne. The title is Bizarre Books, by Russell Ash & Brian Lake. On page 69, of all pages, I discovered a book entitled A New Guide to Conversation in Portuguese and English in Two Parts, by Pedro Carolino (1869, of all years).
The selection offered up the following, of which can also be found on the web,
here.
Dialogue 43: The french language
Do you study?
Yes, sir, I attempts to translate of french by portuguese.
Then you learn the french language?
You do well the french language becomes us all days too much necessary.
What books have you there?
It is a grammar and a vocabulary.
Do you know already the principal grammars rules?
I am appleed my self as to learn its by heart.
What work do you translate thither?
It is a collection choice pieces in prose.
Don’t you read yet the poets?
The poems are yet too difficult by me.
Do you compose without doubt also some small discourses in french?
Not yet I don’t make that some exercises.
Do you speak French alwais?
Some times; though I flay it yet.
You jest, you does express you self very well.
And that, my friends, is how theymos chose Psytoshi to be a mod on BitcoinTalk, and why, to this day, we're all fucked.
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