George Monteiro

Surprising as it may seem, the 2002 Casa da Palavra edition of José da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino's celebrated phrasebook , based on the book's first edition published in 1855, 1 appears to be the first such edition ever published in Brazil. What is even harder to believe—the original was published in Paris—is that the book seems never to have been published in Portugal. The Brazilian edition under review also reproduces in English and in Portuguese translation the two prefaces, by Mark Twain and by James Millington, for independent English-language editions published on either side of the Atlantic in 1883. The 2002 McSweeney edition, in fact, is only the latest addition to a series of English-language editions over last one hundred and twenty years. 2 Fonseca and Carolino's inadvertent masterpiece has been called many things. " An Anglo-Portuguese phrasebook to end all phrasebooks. " 3 " Perhaps the worst foreign phrasebook ever written " and a " linguistic train wreck. " 4 A book of " miraculous stupidities. " 5 " The most ludicrous foreign attempt ever made to teach our language. " 6 Most often under the title English as She Is Spoke—a title shared by an English song published in 1880 and first employed for the Fonseca and Carolino volume in 1883—the mid-nineteenth-century Portuguese phrasebook has become a minor classic. 7 Yet it is not as a book of instruction intended for those Portuguese who would learn English that it has survived—nay thrived—for the last century and a half, but rather it is as a work of accidental comedy and unintended humor. It is known that there was at least a second edition of José da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino's guide following its first publication in Paris in 1855, but in the United Kingdom and the United States there have been numerous editions, as will be seen below. The curious story behind English as She Is Spoke is told by Leslie Shepard: It really began in 1836, when a certain José da Fonseca, a respected Portuguese lexicographer resident in Paris, published a little book entitled: O Novo Guia da Conversação em frances e portuguez; ou escolha de dialogos familiares sôbre varios assuntos; precedido de um copioso vocabulario de nomes proprios, com a pronuncia figurada (etc.) Paris, 1836 This work, offered to the students of Portugal and Brazil, " must have proved very useful, for it was reprinted in an enlarged edition in 1853 (a further edition of 1849 is reported from Rio de Janeiro, but I have no details). The idea of an English language version was perhaps a natural one, and it seems that da Fonseca [sic] became acquainted with a certain Pedro Carolino, who confidently undertook the task of producing an exact English edition. This bilingual work bears both names as authors: O Novo Guia da Conversação em Portuguez e Ingles (etc.) em duas partes __________ The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English, in Two Parts por José da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino. Paris: J.-P. Aillaud, Monlon e Ca, 1855 (Two parts in one volume)

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