Expressions You'd like to see

@realitysquared @asabaida isn't the only member of the forum who thinks there are issues with some of these though.
I've expressed concern that these innocent sounding emotes are being used in a nastier way & that has been clear to me by the behaviour of players using some of these & @spIash_damage had previously mentioned taco as an example.
With all respect, I understand the point you're making, but if we know some of these do have other meanings, then surely we should change things?

@ToastedSarnie The issue here isn’t that some of the emotes and expressions can be used offensively- personally when I saw them adding the “poop” emote I knew exactly how some players would employ it and some extra forethought should have been put into that addition beyond the fact that it’s a standard emote which can be found everywhere because PvZ is a competitive environment.

The problem I foresee with trying to completely sanitize the emotes and expressions from any possible subjective secondary meanings it that you can quickly find reasons to remove nearly everything which has already been added and to not ever add anything ever again.

What do you do when, after you’ve removed an emote because a minority consider it to be an anatomical reference, that particular crowd apply that subjective interpretation to another emote or begin to apply new alternate meanings to other ones?

Remove the Taco and Cat emotes because of a secondary adult slang meaning and another will be swapped in- like Bitter Dill or Fish or who knows what else. Even “Brainz?”, a word intrinsic to the franchise, could be employed as a taunt to infer that a player is stupid.

I stand behind my opinion that research is best served when adopting memes or popular phrases from the Internet but if your goal is to completely sanitize the system so that it becomes a completely safe space for absolutely everyone with no chance whatsoever for a double entendre then you might as well advocate for the entire system to be scrapped and removed because there will be no end to that process.

Just pull all of it out and return us to the simple gestures we had in GW1 and GW2- but it’s doubtful that this will happen because of the work already invested in the expanded system and how it’s been baked into every Prize Map and the games Prize Bulb and Rainbow Star economy.

Something like "We need a Boost pad" or "I need a speed boost" for Roses or Engineers.
Also, rock paper scissors are added, but there is no official way to initiate it. Something like "rock paper scissors?"
This may be a little much to ask, but it would be cool if the plants or zombies made random voices or noises whenever Speech bubbles are used.
Just silly little noises to make chatting more fun. I like some of the sounds NPCs make like Major Sweetie.

@realitysquared I'm sorry, but the fact that some of these can be and are being used offensively is precisely the issue for me.

I don't believe I said at any point that the entire system should be sanitized to such an extent that it needs to be scrapped & I wouldn't expect it to be - I'm just expressing my personal opinion that some of these should be removed & any new ones that are added should be carefully thought through.

Alternatively as @dwooten77 suggested, perhaps a way could be introduced to switch these off so players don't see the emotes being used by others if they don't want to.

I'm bowing out of this discussion because the thread has been derailed enough - please let us just agree to differ & respect each other's right to their own opinion.