{"id":22394,"date":"2015-05-18T17:43:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T17:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=22394"},"modified":"2015-05-18T18:05:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T18:05:12","slug":"english-as-she-is-spoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=22394","title":{"rendered":"English as She is Spoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a Portuguese speaker on the late 1800s attempting to write a Portuguese to English phrasebook, while not knowing any English but possessing both a Portuguese to French dictionary and a French to English dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>It actually happened. And <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=rFhfAAAAMAAJ\">here's the result<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ex.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMy uncle what will to treat her beship in a great sumptuousness, he was go Avignon for to buy what one should not find there, and he had leave me the charge to provide all things. I have excellent business, as you see, and i know some thing more than to eat my soup, since i know do prepare it. I did learn that it must give to the first to second and to the third service, by dishes that want to join, and yet some thing more; because we does pretend make a feast at four services without to account the dessert.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It sounds like what you'd expect by putting text through a mechanical translator a couple of times. Because that's basically what it is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.futilitycloset.com\/2015\/05\/18\/podcast-episode-58-english-as-she-is-spoke\/\">h\/t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a Portuguese speaker on the late 1800s attempting to write a Portuguese to English phrasebook, while not knowing any English but possessing both a Portuguese to French dictionary and a French to English dictionary. It actually happened. And here's the result. ex. My uncle what will to treat her beship in a great sumptuousness, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22399,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22394\/revisions\/22399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}