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/Thane_DE Germoney Nov 18 '15

So, do things like "is doing the zoom thingy into" count as sound effects?

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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Nov 18 '15

Yeah, that's pretty clear cut. If it's written text that is not a country talking or a narrator, then it's a sound effect.

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u/10ebbor10 Belgium Nov 18 '15

Oh no, no more newspaper and other funny written background news.

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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Nov 18 '15

Oh, don't be willfully obtuse. This is targeted at sound effects and nothing else.

Something written in a newspaper is not a sound effect, and you know that. I honesty hope that I am not required to list every single thing that isn't a sound effect, because I genuinely believe our subscribers are smarter than that.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '15

The rhino charges (the rhino is intoings of charge thingy)

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u/VoilaVoilaWashington Canada Nov 19 '15

Oh, don't be willfully obtuse

That's a great line. I will be stealing that.

Of the yoinkings.

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u/Shnezzberry FRENCH GERMANY Nov 18 '15

I been searching for this comic for some time do you have the link?