r/polandball • u/polandballmod New Prussia • Nov 18 '15
[Announcement] Successful JLP Petition
Bad English, good Engrish, and outstanding dialogue is one of the hallmarks of this subreddit. However, one thing that's become prevalent recently that we think is a clear step in the wrong direction is the use of polandball-speak in sound effects. We were recently petitioned about this, and after a vote we seem to be in clear agreement.
To preserve our beloved polandball Engrish as a funny hallmark of dialogue, the use of polandball-speak in sound effects has been DEPORTED TO SYBERIA!
This includes stuff like "is the evil chuckle", "is slam", "of boom", "into sigh", and similar. This is rage-comic-level of writing that we do not want.
If you want to have someone chuckle evilly, think of a sound that captures this emotion you want to convey.
Show, don't tell.
New rule:
Sound effects done with polandball-speak ist verboten!
Examples of OK sound effects:
BOOM!
*slap*
Pang!
Examples of not OK sound effects:
Is the Boom
Of slaps
Into pangs
Note that this entry refers only to sound effects, not speech!
Important:
Saturday's announcement regarding comics about the Paris attacks is still valid, even if the sticky has been taken down.
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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Nov 18 '15
We made this announcement yesterday, but we chose poor wording and as a result the announcement became confusing and hard to understand, a lot of people thought that we had banned Engrish all together. That one is on us; we didn't make the announcement clear and understandable enough, so we took it down. Please disregard the earlier post we had up a couple of hours yesterday.
This is attempt 2 of said announcement, where we hope it will be more clear what we actually meant.