Background Pony #7295
It was noted during a discussion about speech bubbles that the word dialogue means “conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.” according to dictionaries, the tag itself is used in any case a character is talking.
I used the tag Speech for images that had 1 character talking, but others use dialogue on any conversation, even if it’s the following:
I used the tag Speech for images that had 1 character talking, but others use dialogue on any conversation, even if it’s the following:
- a single character talking to the viewer (>>2292455, suggestive)
- an offscreen character talking, with no response from the character in the picture (>>2226922, explicit)
- a single character talking to an offscreen character, with no response (>>2009730)
- a single character with pictograms (>>1498973)
- a response with a pictogram or “…” (>>1652106 explicit)
- a “dialogue” with only pictograms, both characters on screen (>>1228697)
- a cropped image of a dialogue, that only shows 1 character talking (>>2241913)
- Multiple characters talking, but not to each other (in comics or sketch dumps >>2007375)
- The same character talking repeatedly, not to anyone in particular (>>2322730)
- Narrator “talking” in a comic, no one else talks. (>>2306093)
- Thought bubble “dialogue” (>>1751250, not quite right, more like when Garfield the cat “talks” in thought bubbles, hard to find pics)
Additionally, there’s also the monologue tag, which I’m not sure if it applies to cases: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9. I’m also not sure if some of the images tagged “speech” should be retagged as “monologue”.
I think only cases where 2 or more individuals talking to each other should have the tag, and the rest be tagged “monologue” or “speech”. I’m not sure what to do with cases 5 and 6. Any thoughts on this? Anyone with or against separating monologue and dialogue, or what to tag with the above cases?
