ext_14282 ([identity profile] rabidfangurl.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] owlmoose 2008-11-25 07:27 am (UTC)

I desperately want a linguist to write a paper on lolcat as a dialect of the English language. It's actually fairly complex, considering that it has a specific grammar, phonetic spelling, inverted syntax, and other fun plays with standard English. Lolcat is on some levels nothing *but* play with English, which is why it is only comprehensible and funny to fluent English speakers. A three year-old or a beginning ESL student wouldn't be able to grasp why "I can has cheezburger?" is both ungrammatical and yet an inversion of standard syntax and grammar.

...this is why I don't understand the people who hate lolcat. And why I personally think it is so damn funny and make an effort to be "fluent" in it.

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