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An Englishmanās way of speaking absolutely classifies him,The moment he talks he makes some otherEnglishman despise him.One common language Iām afraid weāll never get.Oh, why canāt 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 havenāt used it for years!Why canāt the English teach their children how to speak?Norwegians learn Norwegian; the Greeks have taught their Greek. In France every Frenchman knowshis language from āAā to āZedāThe 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 youāre regarded as a freak.Why canāt the English,Why canāt the English learn to speak?
Iād 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 āaā from an āoā, or a ā3ā from a ā5ā, 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 fontā¦
Sherlock Watson about 9 years ago
Why donāt they meet in the middle with, say, Arial?
ursamaj about 9 years ago
Nah, I think Dingbats would be more Ć -propos.
Atanwat about 9 years ago
I canāt read that font at normal display resolution, either; I had to zoom the strip.
Linguist about 9 years ago
What George is trying to say is:
An Englishmanās way of speaking absolutely classifies him,The moment he talks he makes some otherEnglishman despise him.One common language Iām afraid weāll never get.Oh, why canāt 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 havenāt used it for years!Why canāt the English teach their children how to speak?Norwegians learn Norwegian; the Greeks have taught their Greek. In France every Frenchman knowshis language from āAā to āZedāThe 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 youāre regarded as a freak.Why canāt the English,Why canāt the English learn to speak?
āfrom My Fair Lady
Sparkys44 about 9 years ago
Iād go with Goudy Old Styleā¦
steverinoCT about 9 years ago
Iād 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 āaā from an āoā, or a ā3ā from a ā5ā, 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 fontā¦
dgraham882 Premium Member about 9 years ago
I fear the worst: George will have her talking in Helvetica.