José da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino were nineteenth-century Portuguese writers associated with language manuals, dictionaries, and educational works. Their names became permanently linked with English as She Is Spoke, one of the most famous examples of comic mistranslation in literary history.The work appears to have been produced as a Portuguese-English phrasebook without adequate knowledge of English, possibly through reliance on a Portuguese-French phrasebook and a French-English dictionary. Whatever the exact process, the result was a book whose practical purpose failed spectacularly while its comic value proved enduring. The strange literal renderings, malformed idioms, and absurd conversational examples gave the volume a second life as a classic of unintentional humor.Today English as She Is Spoke is remembered less as a language manual than as a monument to the hazards of translation and the comedy of linguistic overconfidence. Fonseca and Carolino's association with the book places them in the history of literary curiosities: works whose reputation rests not on polished intention, but on the accidental creation of something memorable, strange, and enduringly funny.