The Jumping Frog


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"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was also published as "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog." In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. Upon discovering a French translation of this story, Twain re-translated the story, word for word and keeping the French grammar structure, back into English. He then published all three versions under the title "The Jumping Frog: In English, Then in French, and Then Clawed Back Into A Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil." (Summary by Wikipedia)

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The Jumping Frog: In English, then in French, then Clawed Back into a Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil 4:13 Gelesen von Ruth Golding
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 17:59 Gelesen von Ruth Golding
La Grenouille Sauteuse du Comté de Calaveras 16:46 Gelesen von Didier
The Frog Jumping of the County of Calaveras 16:59 Gelesen von Ruth Golding
Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story 9:14 Gelesen von Ruth Golding

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Funny (strange) story, with humorous awkward translation.


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It adds something if you understand French, but it's not necessary. You can just skip the French part. The translation humor ("Franglish") is reminiscent of English as She is Spoke.