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So, I'd be pretty irritated about this if I didn't find the whole thing so amusing. djwong posted about this recently, but I'm going to repost the link for those of you who don't watch his blog.
http://granades.com/2007/05/02/loltrek/
Loltrek. Here's the backstory: people put silly captions on cute pictures of cats, and share them in chatrooms and on blogs. As the trend develops, it becomes an unwritten rule that the grammar and/or spelling in the captions is bad. Not just that, but bad in a very specific and predictable way. These image macros, dubbed lolcats, ultimately spawn the creation of the star trek parody which is linked to above.
Remember how I said I would normally be irritated by this? Mainly I'm just irritated by l33t or anything that resembles it, and that includes intentionally bad grammar. What can I say -- I'm a virgo with a passing interest in linguistics. Anyway, I was fully prepared to be snide and snippity about this until I realized that some of these lolcats are hysterical. I say some because there's a lot of people making them and not all lols are created equal. In any case, it's harder than I've laughed in a good long time.
So, lolcats, and related lolmacros, I forgive you -- you may carry on your insidious destruction of the English language. But don't let it get too far. The minute you stop being collectively funny, or the minute I see a bonafide l33t creep into one of your cat-tions [sic.], then I'm going straight back to my high horse of proper spelling and complete sentences.
But until then, I have no qualms in recommending this link: I Can Has Cheezburger?
http://granades.com/2007/05/02/loltrek/
Loltrek. Here's the backstory: people put silly captions on cute pictures of cats, and share them in chatrooms and on blogs. As the trend develops, it becomes an unwritten rule that the grammar and/or spelling in the captions is bad. Not just that, but bad in a very specific and predictable way. These image macros, dubbed lolcats, ultimately spawn the creation of the star trek parody which is linked to above.
Remember how I said I would normally be irritated by this? Mainly I'm just irritated by l33t or anything that resembles it, and that includes intentionally bad grammar. What can I say -- I'm a virgo with a passing interest in linguistics. Anyway, I was fully prepared to be snide and snippity about this until I realized that some of these lolcats are hysterical. I say some because there's a lot of people making them and not all lols are created equal. In any case, it's harder than I've laughed in a good long time.
So, lolcats, and related lolmacros, I forgive you -- you may carry on your insidious destruction of the English language. But don't let it get too far. The minute you stop being collectively funny, or the minute I see a bonafide l33t creep into one of your cat-tions [sic.], then I'm going straight back to my high horse of proper spelling and complete sentences.
But until then, I have no qualms in recommending this link: I Can Has Cheezburger?