Humor: Its Theory and Technique, with Examples and Samples; a Book of Discovery, Volumen10Dodd, Mead, 1935 - 268 páginas |
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Página 147
... turns on the absolute artlessness of the language ; it must be as simple as talking ; no strain ; no poetic license ; every phrase just as it would be in prose , so that prose and verse , as it were , turn into one an- other . Compare ...
... turns on the absolute artlessness of the language ; it must be as simple as talking ; no strain ; no poetic license ; every phrase just as it would be in prose , so that prose and verse , as it were , turn into one an- other . Compare ...
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... turn out en masse to acclaim him . Let us , just for fun , take one or two hunting jokes out of Punch and turn them into Spanish . PUNCH JOKE : Belated Sportsman . ( Arriving just as hounds are moving off after breaking up their fox ...
... turn out en masse to acclaim him . Let us , just for fun , take one or two hunting jokes out of Punch and turn them into Spanish . PUNCH JOKE : Belated Sportsman . ( Arriving just as hounds are moving off after breaking up their fox ...
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... Turn it literally from language to language and it becomes like Mark Twain's frog and the Portu- guese Grammar . Turn it any other way and that merely turns French humor into English humor , just as Fitzgerald turned Omar Khayyam's ...
... Turn it literally from language to language and it becomes like Mark Twain's frog and the Portu- guese Grammar . Turn it any other way and that merely turns French humor into English humor , just as Fitzgerald turned Omar Khayyam's ...
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CHAPTER | 1 |
FUN WITH WORDS | 16 |
PARODY BURLESQUE AND MISTRANSLATION | 42 |
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Humor: Its Theory and Technique, with Examples and Samples; a ..., Volumen10 Stephen Leacock Vista de fragmentos - 1935 |
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