ENGLISH AS SHE IS WRIT
From a brochure on the Italian city of Urbino, quoted in The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson:
“The integrity and thus the vitality of Urbino is no chance, but a conservation due to the factors constituted in all probability by the approximate framework of the unity of the country, the difficulty od [sic] communications, the very concentric pattern of hill sistems [sic] or the remoteness from hi-ghly [sic] developed areas, the force of the original design proposed in its construction, with the means at the disposal of the new sciences of the Renaissance, as an ideal city even.”
Please don't bother trying to translate this into Proper English.
This is a rare occasion on which words fail me...
English as she is writ
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English as she is writ
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Re: English as she is writ
Lost in translation???
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Re: English as she is writ
T1,
It was written in English...
Well, the writer thought he was writing English.
I think it was well and truly lost before it reached the paper...
It was written in English...
Well, the writer thought he was writing English.
I think it was well and truly lost before it reached the paper...
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Regards & God bless,
Ray
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"Insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
Isaac Asimov, "The Last Question"
"I refuse to drink water, because of the disgusting things fish do in it"
W.C.Fields
Ray
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"Insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
Isaac Asimov, "The Last Question"
"I refuse to drink water, because of the disgusting things fish do in it"
W.C.Fields
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Re: English as she is writ
Was a Chinese translator.
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Re: English as she is writ
RnB,
Please refer to my previous post...
Please refer to my previous post...
Regards & God bless,
Ray
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"Insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
Isaac Asimov, "The Last Question"
"I refuse to drink water, because of the disgusting things fish do in it"
W.C.Fields
Ray
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"Insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
Isaac Asimov, "The Last Question"
"I refuse to drink water, because of the disgusting things fish do in it"
W.C.Fields
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Re: English as she is writ
I agree with Robert not Bob, they person who wrote that gobbledlygook, works as a translator for Chinese instruction manuals.
I was taught that it is good manners to show respect to the reader, by using correct English and punctuation is what makes the writing into a story.
So the above is not a story, but gobbledygook.
I was taught that it is good manners to show respect to the reader, by using correct English and punctuation is what makes the writing into a story.
So the above is not a story, but gobbledygook.
Deborah
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Just get out there and enjoy life
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Re: English as she is writ
Precisely, Deb,
However, as Bill Bryson said in the book where I found this gem, “If you had asked ‘Who here can speak English?’ the author’s hand would have been one of the first raised.”
However, as Bill Bryson said in the book where I found this gem, “If you had asked ‘Who here can speak English?’ the author’s hand would have been one of the first raised.”
Regards & God bless,
Ray
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"Insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
Isaac Asimov, "The Last Question"
"I refuse to drink water, because of the disgusting things fish do in it"
W.C.Fields
Ray
--
"Insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
Isaac Asimov, "The Last Question"
"I refuse to drink water, because of the disgusting things fish do in it"
W.C.Fields