age ~39
from Pocatello, ID
Nobody can add to the absurdity of this book, nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect.—Mark Twain *** a selection from the INTRODUCTION: FROM the time of Shakespeare downwards, wits and authors innumerable have made themselves and the public more or l...
Author
Jose Da Fonseca
Binding
Paperback
Pages
114
Publisher
Dover Pubns
ISBN #
0486223299
EAN Code
9780486223292
ISBN #
10
In 1855, when Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino wrote an English phrasebook for Portuguese students, they faced just one problem: they didn't know any English. Even worse, they didn't own an English-to-Portuguese dictionary. What they did have, though, was a Portuguese-to-French dictionary, and a F...
Author
Jose da Fonseca, Pedro Carolino
Binding
Paperback
Pages
151
Publisher
McSweeney's
ISBN #
1932416110
EAN Code
9781932416114
ISBN #
4
In 1855, when Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino wrote an English phrasebook for Portuguese students, they faced just one problem: The didn't know any English. All they had was a Portuguese-to-French dictionary, and a French-to-English dictionary. The linguistic train wreck that ensued is a classic ...
Author
Jose da Fonseca, Pedro Carolino
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
133
Publisher
McSweeney's Books
ISBN #
097190474X
EAN Code
9780971904743
ISBN #
3
Taking a critical look at major perspectives on innovation, this book suggests that innovation is not a designed functional activity of a firm or an intentional process through which firms anticipate changes in conditions. Jose Fonseca proposes that the concepts behind the innovation experiences ca...
Author
Jose Fonseca
Binding
Paperback
Pages
144
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN #
0415250307
EAN Code
9780415250306
ISBN #
2
this book was intended as a Portuguese-English conversational guide or phrase book, but is regarded as a classic source of unintentional humour, as the given English translations are generally completely incoherent. The humour appears to be a result of dictionary-aided literal translation, which cau...
Author
Jose De Fonseca, Carolino Pedro
Binding
Paperback
Pages
40
Publisher
SMK Books
ISBN #
1617204536
EAN Code
9781617204531
ISBN #
1