[Dragaera] LOLDragaera

[Howard Brazee]

Matthew Hunter wrote:
> Also, it's worth noting that the big appeal is almost certainly 
> due to the combination of silly and funny pictures of cats in 
> absurd poses with amusing captions -- the fact that the captions 
> are usually written in some combination of "leetspeak" and ... I 
> don't even know what to call the style that originated with the 
> infamous "all ur base belongs to us" quote... is actually a bit 
> of a distraction from the humor.  It's tolerated, I think, 
> because that's how the whole thing started.  But the language 
> weirdness is certainly not the source of the amusement for me, 
> and I do not suspect myself to be unique in this.
>
> (Besides -- since when do cats think in perfect english?)
>   
While I didn't find them funny in general, I never did "get" weird 
speaking like that.   There's a cat in a newspaper comic that lisps.   I 
infer that lisping is funny.    Making something hard to read does not 
make it funny.