An Englishman’s way of speaking absolutely classifies him,The moment he talks he makes some otherEnglishman despise him.One common language I’m afraid we’ll never get.Oh, why can’t the English learn toset a good example to people whoseEnglish is painful to your ears?The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears.There even are places where English completelydisappears.Well, in America, they haven’t used it for years!Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?Norwegians learn Norwegian; the Greeks have taught their Greek. In France every Frenchman knowshis language from “A” to “Zed”The French never care what they do, actually,as long as they pronounce it properly.Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning.And Hebrews learn it backwards,which is absolutely frightening.Use proper English you’re regarded as a freak.Why can’t the English,Why can’t the English learn to speak?
I’d always dismissed the anti-Comic Sans as not a big deal; but now I am doing data entry for about 100 forms a week, and they are all faxes scanned into PDF format, originally printed in Comic Sans. Trying to tell an ‘a’ from an ‘o’, or a ‘3’ from a ‘5’, and so on, is ridiculously hard, and the delay caused by my having to repeatedly magnify a word adds a lot of time to this supposed side-task. We tried automating it with OCR, but given the quality, plus the font…
Sherlock Watson over 8 years ago
Why don’t they meet in the middle with, say, Arial?
ursamaj over 8 years ago
Nah, I think Dingbats would be more à-propos.
Atanwat over 8 years ago
I can’t read that font at normal display resolution, either; I had to zoom the strip.
Linguist over 8 years ago
What George is trying to say is:
An Englishman’s way of speaking absolutely classifies him,The moment he talks he makes some otherEnglishman despise him.One common language I’m afraid we’ll never get.Oh, why can’t the English learn toset a good example to people whoseEnglish is painful to your ears?The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears.There even are places where English completelydisappears.Well, in America, they haven’t used it for years!Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?Norwegians learn Norwegian; the Greeks have taught their Greek. In France every Frenchman knowshis language from “A” to “Zed”The French never care what they do, actually,as long as they pronounce it properly.Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning.And Hebrews learn it backwards,which is absolutely frightening.Use proper English you’re regarded as a freak.Why can’t the English,Why can’t the English learn to speak?
—from My Fair Lady
Sparkys44 over 8 years ago
I’d go with Goudy Old Style…
steverinoCT over 8 years ago
I’d always dismissed the anti-Comic Sans as not a big deal; but now I am doing data entry for about 100 forms a week, and they are all faxes scanned into PDF format, originally printed in Comic Sans. Trying to tell an ‘a’ from an ‘o’, or a ‘3’ from a ‘5’, and so on, is ridiculously hard, and the delay caused by my having to repeatedly magnify a word adds a lot of time to this supposed side-task. We tried automating it with OCR, but given the quality, plus the font…
dgraham882 Premium Member over 8 years ago
I fear the worst: George will have her talking in Helvetica.