Mark Twain‘s sense of humor is on display in this edition of the Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, a volume that contains some bonus material bound to amuse those who enjoy the peculiarities of language, and who have tried, even once upon a time, to translate anything, from one language to another. As the publishers description on Amazon says:
Containing the original story (in english), a french translation which was published in la Revue des Deux Mondes and which Twain finds to be a travesty of the original text, and Twain’s re-translation of the french back into english, word for word (this is where things degenerate). A masterpiece of babelfishien nonsense dating from well before babelfish was even a gleam in the binary code of its creator (1903). Best appreciated if you can read both French and English, but even if you skip the french version it’s truly brilliant. If you have ever translated random text using babelfish just because it’s funny, don’t miss this book.
As good old Samuel Clemens himself put it in his foreword “I cannot speak the French language, but I can translate very well, though not fast, I being self-educated.”
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