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Per some recent new contributor good faith edits on Laughter that were reverted, I checked and it doesn't look like we've ever had a discussion about this page. A good chunk of what's here violates NPOV, simply due to the fact that what's been written out as laughter is one editor's interpretation of what it sounds like to them. Some of them I feel are pretty obvious (Bunsen), But Ernie's is egregiously off ("Chrrrrr"??). Rather than spend time trying to decide by committee how each character's laugh should be spelled out, I think the best way to approach this page is to use sound/video clips. I can do the video editing and uploading, but it would be helpful if others can point to sources for where we can find definitive laughs for these characters. —Scott 
(talk) 12:29, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
- That makes better sense. Laughter isn't anything that the scripts would ever spell out, beyond "haha" or whatever. This avoids the whole "how it sounds to me/how I think it should be spelled if transcribed" thing. The contributor in question used two different versions in his edits. The first was just the letter k repeated so I had no idea what they were even trying to convey (I get it a little more from their second attempt, but that just shows the issue of trying to convey sounds that way).
- Even the descriptions could use re-examination, now that I look at it closely. Fair enough to call Ernie's laugh a chuckle or Bunsen's a titter. But what does "cheeky laughter" even mean for Prairie Dawn? Audio as source would avoid all of that. Can't point to anything specific right now, though. -- Andrew
17:45, 11 October 2023 (UTC)