[Cynnabar] bad renaissance translations

[Aaron Elkiss]

This is what I was thinking of, and it isn't period:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_As_She_Is_Spoke

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Aaron Elkiss <aelkiss at umich.edu> wrote:
> I'm trying to remember something about a work that was translated very
> badly into English in period, possibly from French, using a literal
> word to word translation and a bilingual dictionary for an
> intermediary third language (maybe Portuguese??). Does this ring a
> bell for anyone?
>