It is a noise for which to cleave the head

In José da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino’s 1855 book “English as She is Spoke,” they tried to create a guide to English for Portuguese students, but neither of them spoke any English.

They did have a Portuguese-to-French dictionary, and a French-to-English dictionary. The result was a mess. Here are some phrases:

“That are the dishes whom you must be and to abstain.”
“He does me some kicks.”
“It is a noise for which to cleave the head.” (Referring to orchestra music.)
“He do the devil at four. (???)

It reminded me of text that comes out when you prompt an artificial intelligence automatic text generator with a sentence or two — mostly nonsense.

But what if you input nonsense from “English as She is Spoke” into a modern AI text generator? Would the AI produce text that made perfect sense?

Uh, no.

I entered this text from the 1855 book to the AI. It is under the section for “morning sayings.”

Is your master at home?
Yes, sir.
Is it up.
No, sir, he sleep yet.
I go make that he get up.

Here is the result from the AI text generator.

Is your master at home?
Yes, sir.
Is it up.
No, sir, he sleep yet.

I go make that he get up.
Seems worse, sir, he doesn’t wake up

I know a little bit about this.
Doesn’t bother a lot.
Requires a lot.
Seems really good.

“I was too stupid for that. It’s the only kind of time you have that I need anyway. Just, I need. Seems way too bad. Seems way too many times too long. Seems way too many times too short a times a long.

I just need to say something. Does that matter. Does it matter at all.

Doesn’t bother me at all.

I think I should be able to read if i’m being so smart.

In a sense, I think I just need to say something.

One of my questions: is a player going to have a good game when he gets hurt, and is that how many times? He’s not doing that. I’ve just had a game where I was absolutely hurt and was getting hurt in some moments. If I get hurt twice a game, the game is a good thing. If I get hurt more, I probably should have gone for the first three weeks of life. If I can’t do that, then my game is a good thing. If I got hurt twice a game, I probably shouldn’t have gone for it.

I should have had two days before getting hurt and getting hurt. I don’t do that. If I have two days before going for the first three days of life, the game is a good thing. If I don’t get hurt, I probably should have gone for the first three days of life. If I get hurt as a result of one side of the game or the other, then my game isn’t good. If I get hurt like that, my game’s good. If I get hurt as a result of two sides of the game or the other side of the game, then my game is probably really bad.

One of my questions: “Is you not the same player that you are in second year?” — the other one.

A question: “Is your game all the same?” — this one is probably not going to answer my second question but it is certainly possible. I’ve been playing at home.

I haven’t had a good game up until this one so I know it’s different. I’ll make my way through that and then I’ll get really pissed.

I want to play my way through that but I also want to play my way through that and be in that first game if I have bad. I won’t know if I’s doing that.”

Well, It didn’t work very well! You can try your own text prompts in the text generator at: