Issue

Example

Guidelines

If a character sees it and reads it out loud, then use that character's voice. Read it with the attitude that the character seeing it would give it (frightened, nonchalant, etc.).

Otherwise, let the sign talk. Here is how to make a sign talk:

• Put a slight pause before reading it
• Then read a bit slower, giving each word equal emphasis.
• Add a slight pause between each word.
• Add another pause after you finish saying the words on the sign.

This is for the benefit of the listener, who needs the opportunity to visualize the sign.

If the same sign (or a similar one) appears again, now it is familiar to the listener, so you can read a bit faster, with less emphasis. Do this even if a different person is seeing the sign for the first time. Likewise if 3 people each separately see the sign, only read it slower for the first one who sees it.

Exceptions:

• The sign is changed in some way.
• You included the sign's words again for a comic reason.
• The other person who reads the sign will interpret it differently. When he sees it, you can read it again, this time the way he understands it.