I always thought these comics were funny and clever when I saw them pop up in my social media streams. But when I read a bunch back-to-back I realized something that ruined them forever: this is everything I hate about Portuguese. I like the Portuguese language, but the stiff Latin structures and words make me feel like a robot, an alien, let us say. I spend much of my day trying to convince students to use words that are not cognates when they are speaking English, precisely so they do not sound like a Nathan W Pyle creation. People literally pay me to convert pages of text written exactly like this into readable English. After the halfway point, the more I thought about it, the more I detested the jokes.

They "lost the grace,"

as we say in Portuguese.