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natopaisano

Five Hundred and Twenty One

Feb 17, 2009 17:50

ZOMG! Questions for my friends regarding Teh Internets:

1. When, and why, did people start prefixing "OMG" with a "Z"?

2. When, and why, did people start purposefully misspelling "The" as "Teh"?

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rainydaygirl414 February 18 2009, 04:10:42 UTC

THANK YOU. I have been wondering about these things, but it never really occurred to me to ask. The other thing that doesn't make a damn bit of sense to me is "can has." I have, on the internet, encountered such sentences as: "I can has wish you happy birthday!" I don't get it. It is gibberish to me.

cheeserock February 18 2009, 05:20:36 UTC

i am pretty sure "camn has" comes from LOL CATS.

natopaisano February 18 2009, 08:34:16 UTC

Yeah, it's LOLCATS-speak. It's a dialect.

hotshotrobot February 18 2009, 17:58:24 UTC

http://icanhascheezburger.com/

rainydaygirl414 February 18 2009, 18:04:05 UTC

That's very cute. Lots of adorable pictures of kittens. But whoa, everything that could possibly be misspelled is. On purpose. They even misspelled "my." I know this is really stick-up-the-ass of me, but I majored in two languages in college. I think it would drive me crazy to be on that site all the time.

hotshotrobot February 18 2009, 18:16:11 UTC

But kittens can't spell! They try so hard, but they make mistakes!

evangelineok February 18 2009, 18:31:56 UTC

Yes, that is part of what makes it cute!!!

rainydaygirl414 February 19 2009, 16:36:32 UTC

Oh, I get it. I'm just sayin' that I'm just grammar-nazi enough that it would stop being cute for me after about 5 minutes.

natopaisano February 18 2009, 20:03:05 UTC

I'm pretty sure that the lolcats have a style guide, actually.

cheeserock February 19 2009, 04:11:01 UTC

they do. and a translation of the bible.

and a history.

rainydaygirl414 February 19 2009, 16:37:52 UTC

Holy shit. I need to write more. I could make a ton of money.

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