[Dragaera] LOLDragaera
Howard Brazee
howard at brazee.net
Tue Jan 8 14:58:51 PST 2008
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.
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