Lessons in Captioning: Brevity

Posted by Harvey on December 13, 2009 at 11:23 am

TEEEEJ was kind enough to send me this lolterizt! pic:

Not bad, but it could be better.

So, instead of just throwing it in with the rest of the collection next week, I’m gonna use it as a teachable moment on the importance of brevity in captioning, and show you how to make the same joke in three words:

Now, the risk I take in the shorter version is that readers won’t know what a PDA is, or that they’ll think about the other PDA. But that’s what reference links are for.

Feel free to debate the relative merits of both approaches in the comments.

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8 Responses to “Lessons in Captioning: Brevity”

1. proof says:
   December 13th, 2009 at 12:47 pm

   Brvty s th sl f wt!

2. Crusty says:
   December 13th, 2009 at 1:22 pm

   K.

3. MarkoMancuso says:
   December 13th, 2009 at 1:56 pm

   I don’t know. I don’t find the picture funny.

   Now, if the RPG was poorly made, and if I knew it was going to explode, then it’d be funny.

4. razed by mice says:
   December 13th, 2009 at 11:37 pm

   taliban?

   talib-anal!

5. IH8Socialist says:
   December 14th, 2009 at 9:40 am

   taliban 4play

6. Johnny I says:
   December 14th, 2009 at 12:57 pm

   1 word
   RPPG?

7. Johnny I says:
   December 14th, 2009 at 1:01 pm

   3
   Rokit in pokit?

8. Krig the Viking says:
   December 14th, 2009 at 7:26 pm

   Comedy relies on the element of surprise. Too many words can take the surprise away.

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