Those stupid cat photos actually have a grammar?

by Brian A Kennedy | April 28, 2007 at 06:42 am
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Anil Dash argues (quite persuasively, which is scary) that lolcats -- those bizarre photos of cats doing funny things with, uh, cat latin captions -- actually have an internally consistent grammar. So the guy's got way too much time on his hands, but it's still an interesting read:
Incorrect kitty pidgin jumped to my attention the first time I saw a reference to Dune being used with a lolcat image. The caption on the linked version of the image, "The spice must flow." is fine, if not particularly cat-like. But the caption on the version I saw first was much more verbose: "I are dunecat. I controls the spice, I controls the universe." Besides being an awkward attempt at overexplaining the punchline (I've never read Dune or seen the film, but the joke is obvious) this was just all wrong. The fact that we can tell no cat would talk like this shows that kitty pidgin is actually quite consistent

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