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cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/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
    165·
    7 days ago

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

    • JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
      6·
      6 days 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?”.

    • thevoidzero@lemmy.world
      4·
      7 days ago

      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·
        6 days 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.