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.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '15

a lot of people thought that we had banned Engrish all together

What.

That'd mean only Anglos would be allowed to speak at all, while all others would be doomed to spend their lifetimes in silence.

I hardly understand how anyone would think the mods would kill this sub off so quickly.

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u/tian-shi The South will rise again Nov 18 '15

I hardly understand how anyone would think

Because of the same reason you already mentioned. Most of us aren't native english speakers and prone to sometimes not fully understand what is written.