RSSReasons I’m a Nerd, #35 and #36
#35. A search on the linguistics of the emergent LOLCat pseudo-language brought me to a December 2007 post at Linguistic Mystic in which he examines a discussion for LOLCODE programmers:
I know VISIBLE is the current output command, but it’s so not LOLCAT. What if we used LOL as the output instead? So, the Count-1 example becomes:
[Code]
I think this works very well, is funny to read and matches actual LOLCAT protocol, sorta. I guess the LOL would be at the end normally.
Linguistic Mystic writes,
As a linguist, this is really, really exciting. People are already trying to step in and enforce the “rules” of the LOLCat dialect. It seems like, as a “native speaker” of LOLCat, the author of this page had a distinct intuition about the “proper” means of expressing a concept in this dialect. Truly incredible.
#36. I, too, find it exciting.
If you can handle it: The LOLCat Bible Translation, Teh Holiez Bibul
You can leave a response below, or trackback from your own site.21 An Ceiling Cat caused a deep sleep to fall upon teh man, An he slept; An he took 1 of his ribs, cuz it has a flavr. 22 An Ceiling Cat can haz teh rib frum man maded into wimman, but did not eated it cuz he brot her to teh man. He sai O hai, I maded u a man but wifout teh dingy. Have fun, kthxbai. 23 Teh man saiz,
“Dese bonez is my bonez
an dis meatz are my meatz;
I calz her “whoa man”, k
cuz she in ur chest taken ur ribs.”
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#35 is pretty much why I’m happy about LOLCODE, too, and why it came to be. It was the notion of “linguistic play” that seemed to provide the spark at the beginning and for the first couple weeks, that it was a language about which people had definite ideas of right and wrong.
This LOL Cat thing is getting pretty crazy! Can’t wait to see the new ways people talk to, through, and about their animals when this becomes too cliché.