Even without a translation the joke comes thru. This is good.
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Oof, a WordArt infection. That'll be tough to eradicate.
Would be funny if someone with Comic Sans got quarantined or put down.
I like how I could understand the comic without the translation even though I don't know Portuguese.
What kind of health care prescribes Arial over Helvetica?
Helveltica is too new.
Eh? Perhaps I'm missing the joke, but Arial is a clone of Helvetica, which latter has been around since 1957.
Maybe you're referring to Helvetica Neue, idk.
You're probably right. I haven't touched a windows in so many years that from what I remembered Arial is a known thing, but I don't remember Helvetica being a thing.
I'll trust your assessment.
Helvetica was very popular for its unapologetically modernist and neutral look, such that its overuse was criticized even before Arial swooped in — it was particularly widespread in corporate and government design. Microsoft cloned Helvetica as Arial so as to not pay for the licensing, but Arial is disliked by typeface designers for details which elude me (just like other MS fonts). Of course, Arial dominated home and office printing and web design ever since, as it was readily available. Apple licenses Helvetica proper and ships it in MacOS.
I guess if you know enough Spanish, Portuguese kinda just comes off as poor spelling / grammar, with a few nonsense words thrown in
It is very easy for those who know Portuguese to learn Spanish and vice-versa because the grammar is the same and most words are the same.
However the spoken Portuguese from Portugal has a very strong accent (which makes it sound almost like an Eastern European language for those not from EE, unlike Brasilian Portuguese) which makes it harder for Spanish-speakers to understand.
Who remembers Broderbund Print Shop and the bad fonts it unleashed upon the world?
I kinda remember making banners with the z-fold dot matrix printer paper, but mosty I remember MS-Word's WordArt, which I think is the BomDia here.
Nowadays, the desktop publishing situation is grim. MS Publisher is being retired soon, pushing people to shitty online template-based solutions.
I'm surprised MS Publisher is still around to be honest. I haven't heard about it in about two decades.
Canva is the worst thing to happen in a long time and everybody is using it. I have to do docs at work sometimes, I ended up building html templates and have a script that prints it out into a neat looking PDF. All that just so I could avoid another bloated cumbersome web app where you have to pay for the simplest of things. I dream of the day that company fails and burns to the ground.
Affinity is pretty good and free. Belongs to one of the pushers of shitty online templates these days, though.
Just a matter of time before it's gone or enshittified, given its owner. Make sure to keep it backed up in a way that you can reinstall it without any server authentication, and I'd also freeze automatic updates/
I currently have it running in a Windows VM not connected to the Internet, so that should be fine. I also think that they are using it as a sales funnel towards their premium subscription, which of course might mean that more and more features get locked behind that.
Currently it's just the AI Features and Templates, which doesn't affect me as a user.
I know absolutely no Portuguese, but that was totally readable. This artist could put duolingo out of business.
I was confused by the translation as I would have thought "bom dia" would mean "good day" rather than "good morning". I looked it up and apparently although it does literally mean "good day," people will look at you funny if you say it any time other than morning as that's how it's actually used. Interesting!
Here's a translation for people who don't speak Portuguese.
Word M.D.
"What's the issue?"
"THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY VOICE"
"OK. I'll give you some pills."
[Doctor grabs the pills]
"THANK YOU, DOCTOR!"
"Next!"
"GOOD MORNING, doctor!"
(P.S. Brazilian Portuguese is very based, y'all should learn it. If any of you have been indefinitely postponing learning a new language, don't! Learning languages is very cool when you're excited to learn new things about their respective cultures! :)
You go to the doctor to solve your gay problem?
bruh, at least feed the image to a clanker to get a translation or something. The Brazilian-Portuguese written here has enough cognates in it, along with the copious amounts of context clues from the art, that I'm a bit astounded this was the quip that came to mind for you.
Yeah I know a bit of Spanish and was able to decipher this. Ça prend pas la tête à Papineau!
i speak brazilian pirtuguese, and i can say i've got 0 clue what that meant!
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