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| Wednesday, 29 August 2007 |
| lolcatz not speek pidgin |
I've been thinking for a while now that what the internets need is a grammar of lolcat: it seemed to me that the language was internally consistent enough for there to be a concept of "wrong" in it, so a grammar was possible. Then I discovered that, of course, Anil Dash had the same thought months ago: Anil calls lolcat a pidgin, dismissing the possibility that it's a creole. I'd say it's an argot, that is, a language belonging to a sub-culture that has no function outside that sub-culture. Considering that we have no actual evidence of cats themselves speaking lolcat, sadly I have to dismiss the idea of the pidgin.
What Anil does mention is the possibility of lolcat getting "all the niceties that Klingon and Elmer Fudd-speak enjoy, like a Google translation, a Microsoft Word dictionary, or a cat-native version of the Bible or Shakespeare". Oh. Win!
in beginin iz Wurd, an Wurd iz wiv God ceiling cat, an Wurd iz God ceiling cat. Labels: lolcats |
| posted @ 11:09 |
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