单词 | as she is spoke |
释义 | > as lemmasas she is spoke P2. humorous. as she is spoke: designating the variety of a language actually in colloquial use or as used by certain speakers, frequently implying deviation from grammatical, stylistic, etc., norms.The work cited in quot. 1883 consists of extracts from J. da Fonseca & P. Carolino O Novo guia da conversação, em portuguez e inglez (The New Guide of the Conversation, in Portuguese and English) (1855), whose entertainingly incorrect English is due to word-for-word translation from an earlier Portuguese–French phrase book, J. da Fonseca O Novo guia da conversação em francês e português (1853). ΚΠ 1883 (title) English as she is spoke: or, A jest in sober earnest. 1887 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 8 Oct. 4/7 In the main the colonial speech flows tolerably pure from ‘the well of English undefiled’. It is nearer the standard of classical English than ‘English as she is spoke’ in Yorkshire, or Lancashire, or Somersetshire. 1899 A. C. Maudslay & A. P. Maudslay Glimpse at Guatemala xxiv. 232 A masterpiece of ‘Spanish as she is spoke’. 1929 Aeronautics Dec. 34/3 Her language is of comic strip acceptance of English as she is spoke. 1933 French Rev. Apr. 409 A helpful little treatise on ‘French as she is spoke’. 1979 K. C. Lee Lang. & Lang. Educ. ix. 79 The study of linguistic features of a new variety of English such as Singapore English cannot be said to be reliably done by random sampling of English ‘as she is spoke’ in certain random situations in Singapore. 1995 D. Bellos Georges Perec (rev. ed.) xxxiv. 348 His long efforts on behalf of le néo-français—‘French as she is spoke’. 2006 M. A. Boden Mind as Machine (2008) I. vii. 417 Performance concerns what people actually do when they speak on particular occasions (English as she is spoke). < as lemmas |
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