Random English, incoherently spoken

This link, English as She is Spoke, has a writeup that makes it well worth examining:

“This 1883 book is without question the worst phrasebook ever written. The writer, Pedro Carolino, who was Portuguese, did not particularly speak English, nor did he have a Portuguese-English dictionary available. Instead, he worked with a French-English phrasebook and a Portuguese-French dictionary. The results, I’m sure you’ll agree, are staggering.”Today’s snippet-o-joy from Danno:

*** Message (#64) from Divide By Zero at 16:05 ***
>you are geek, hear you roar. mew.

*laugh* Yep, that’s what domesticats do.

I have got to get geek-chick.net up and running. I guess I need to put in a good solid night’s worth of work before I go on vacation.

Speaking of excruciatingly funny…the Breast Cancer Society of Canada actually found a way to make a commercial about breast self-exams funny…

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