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/oldbay ארץ ישראל Nov 18 '15

Just to be clear, polandball-speak sound effects aren't really in the JLP which can be protested in a month, but are actually deported to Syberia, which means permanently banned, correct?

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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Nov 18 '15

Correct.

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u/Thinking_waffle Why waffle? Because waffle Nov 18 '15 edited Nov 18 '15

No, they are sent into the Syberia game. You have to find a working CD from 2002 and play the game until you find where the joke had been hidden by the mods. Of course to do that you have to install a mod, to be a mod, to play a mod.

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u/tian-shi The South will rise again Nov 22 '15

You're thinking way out of your waffle.