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!”
  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    124·
    20 小时前

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

    • thevoidzero@lemmy.world
      4·
      16 小时前

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

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        1 小时前

        “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.

      • [object Object]@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 小时前

        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.

    • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      11 小时前

      Arial is a proprietary Microsoft font, which is expensive to license if you want to distribute it yourself; I actually think it works even on that level (doctors giving you name brands instead of the cheaper generic (open source) option)

      • [object Object]@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 分钟前

        I mean, Helvetica is also proprietary, like the majority of typefaces. Iirc there are some metrically-compatible open clones, though.

        • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
          0·
          2 分钟前

          DejaVu Sans 💪

          I once created a WYSIWYG (also the dumbest acronym for what is essentially a word processor), and we got in trouble for embedding Arial and other fonts into PDFs and documents. Had to change it so that we don’t embed fonts anymore.

          If you ever wonder why PDFs and other documents look subtly or unsubtly different or even break completely depending on what computer you open it on; that’s why. Personally I think it’s stupid. You should be able to embed fonts into the document. It’s not like people are going to extract it from the document and install it or whatever.

  • y0kai [he/him]@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    23·
    20 小时前

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

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      1 小时前

      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 from those not from EE, unlike Brasilian Portuguese) which makes it harder for Spanish-speakers to understand.

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      20 小时前

      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.

      • Grimy@lemmy.world
        4·
        14 小时前

        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.

      • zout@fedia.io
        4·
        19 小时前

        I’m surprised MS Publisher is still around to be honest. I haven’t heard about it in about two decades.

    • nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world
      8·
      16 小时前

      In jokes, comics and other alike media, doctors regularly represent the full healthcare system, accuracy would make the comic unwieldy and very unfunny, thereby defeating the purpose of said comic.

    • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      17 小时前

      It’s common for laboratories to give them free samples, and they just distribute it. It’s more common with private doctors. In the public system, they will give you a prescription and depending on which meds, you can grab them for free in authorized pharmacies.