cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52553411

Website: https://www.willtirando.com.br/

cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone/t/4411483

Fonts rule


Translation:

  • Panel 1: Doctor Word
  • Panel 2: Doctor: "What is the problem?"
  • Panel 3: Patient: "There's something wrong with my voice."
  • Panel 4: Doctor: "Sure. I'll give you some pills."
  • Panel 6: Patient: "Thanks, Doctor!"
  • Panel 7: Doctor: "Next!"
  • Panel 8: Next patient: "Good morning, doctor!"
(panel 1) "Doutor word" (panel 2) Doctor (seated, facing patient): "Qual o problema?" (panel 3) Patient (seated) (in large font): "TEM ALGO ERRANDO COM MINHA VOZ" (panel 4) Doctor (reaching into drawer): "Certo. Vou te dar uns comprimidos." (panel 5) Doctor holding pill bottle labeled "Arial 12 pts." (panel 6) Patient (leaving) (in large font): "OBRIGADO, DOUTOR!" (panel 7) Doctor (seated): "Próximo!" (panel 8) Second patient (entering): "Bom Dia (in large, blue, wavy word art), doutor! (in rainbow gradient word art)"

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[–] 5 points 1 month ago

Even without a translation the joke comes thru. This is good.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Oof, a WordArt infection. That'll be tough to eradicate.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Would be funny if someone with Comic Sans got quarantined or put down.

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    [–] 161 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    I like how I could understand the comic without the translation even though I don't know Portuguese.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Oddly enough, I don't know a word of Portuguese, but do know some Spanish. However, I had to read it, read the translation, and then look at it again to figure it out because I'm a bit of an idiot. All I could think was "What kind of drug is Arial 12pt?".

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    My guess for proxima was "approach" in "come in" Sense. But yeah, it was nice getting the joke even without the language

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    "Proximo" (or "proxima" which is the version of the word use for females and, since in Latin languages there is no "the" and everything is either "masculine" or "feminine", objects which are treated as "feminine") is actually slightly tricky when translated to English because it means the "next" or "following" something in a list (hence here the doctor literally saying "Next!" in the very same way as you would in English) but it also means something that's "near" or "close (to)" but not actually "next (to)".

    It's one of those funny things you often find between languages in that a word in two languages means the same kind of thing (in this case related to distance between things) but the intensity/amount of the property it's about isn't quite the same in both languages, which can be tricky to figure out when you're first learning a new language as what's seemingly a simple translation turns out to have quite a bit of subtlety.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    What kind of health care prescribes Arial over Helvetica?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I guess if you know enough Spanish, Portuguese kinda just comes off as poor spelling / grammar, with a few nonsense words thrown in

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Who remembers Broderbund Print Shop and the bad fonts it unleashed upon the world?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Affinity is pretty good and free. Belongs to one of the pushers of shitty online templates these days, though.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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/

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    If it was communism everyone would be prescribed Monospace

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    I know absolutely no Portuguese, but that was totally readable. This artist could put duolingo out of business.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    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!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Obrigado OP. That was funny!

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    [–] 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)
  • 2nd guy doesn't have an issue.
    2nd guy got vibe.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago*

    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! :)

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  • [+] -11 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    You go to the doctor to solve your gay problem?

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  • [–] 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Yeah I know a bit of Spanish and was able to decipher this. Ça prend pas la tête à Papineau!

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