LoLspeak is OUT OF CONTROL!

[JoeyDonuts]

Ok. LOLcats have been around for a while now. Every time I log into my work email, someone has decided it'd be funny/cute/whatever to forward around an email full of them. Some of them are quite funny, most are annoying.

We all know about the butchered English that goes into these captions that implies cats, if they could speak, would sound mentally retarded at worst and children at best.

Most of these come from the siteI CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? I actually meandered the site the other day and discovered much to my horror that there is a mini-message thread wherein the users of the forum converse back and forth in LOLspeak. Peruse a few of these and see if you don't feel a couple of IQ points evaporate.

These are conceivably grown adults doing this. Granted this is no more ridiculous to me than someone learning Klingon or frittering away their free time on SecondLife. But the straw that broke the camel's back was a combination of seeing this thread and overhearing a group of teenage girls actually saying "LOL" to each other in spoken conversation.

Is it just me, or does it seem like respect for the English language is circling the drain at this point? We may not be that far from the world of Mike Judge's Idiocracy after all.

 

[Smackety]

Lolwtf

 

[bozothedeathmachine]

I have to agree here. LOLcats is probably the stupidest the Net has brought us. And with all the stupid crap on the Interwebs, that's saying something.

On the other hand, it did spawn LOL Cthulu, which made me giggle.

 

[PitPat]

Is it just me, or does it seem like respect for the English language is circling the drain at this point? We may not be that far from the world of Mike Judge's Idiocracy after all.

Why you talking all faggy?

 

[Damien Evans]

You know you asked for it...

 

[Smackety]

Them darned kids, ruining a perfectly good language!

 

[Damien Evans]

I can't believe I was the first person to post a kitteh.

I hate LOLspeak being used in real life.

 

[SimonD]

I can't believe I was the first person to post a kitteh.

I hate LOLspeak being used in real life.

I don't know...It's just the language evolving. Didn't you have to explain to your parents some of the words that you used as a kid.

I'm sure that 'Eddie' has a different meaning to you and your friends then it does to your parents

 

[JoeyDonuts]

I SAY! This horrendous, haphazard and ham-handed bastardization of the Queen's Toungue must be put to an end POSTHASTE, sir!

"I can has cheezburger" you say?!? Balderdash! Poppycock and Piffle!

Very well! Fie upon thee, you felonious and false-hearted feline interloper! You leave me no recourse but to express my most egregious displeasure in the strongest possible verbage to Number 10 Downing street forthwith.

-Brigadier Sir Arthur Percival Fontlebottom von Ceiling Kitteh IV, ESQ.

 

[JoeyDonuts]

Ye Gods. I have misspelled the word tongue. How frightfully pedestrian.

 

[Kevin_Lowe]

The conceit that cats were poor spellers was mildly amusing.

Fonnetisizing eech wurd annoyz, sertenly, butt wut's wurse ees peeple hoo yooze turms laik "laik", "ohr" ohr "butt" which can't by any stretch of the imagination be construed as errors made by a cat. They're idiots who not only didn't understand why the original lolcats were funny, but who make a huge display of their idiocy every time they post.

 

[Corpse Cruncher]

I don't know...It's just the language evolving. Didn't you have to explain to your parents some of the words that you used as a kid.

I'm sure that 'Eddie' has a different meaning to you and your friends then it does to your parents

Isn't it every kids goal to speak a language the olds can't understand?

I admit I said LOL the other day, it was braincell relapse.

 

[Damien Evans]

I don't know...It's just the language evolving. Didn't you have to explain to your parents some of the words that you used as a kid.

I'm sure that 'Eddie' has a different meaning to you and your friends then it does to your parents

Nope, I'm quite old fashioned with language, especially for a 20 year old. Hell, I even spell out text messages properly, and half the time the replies are near incomprehensible.

 

[TheDoLittle]

'/34|-|, 3\/3r'/0|\|3 |<|\|0\/\/5 l337 $p34|< 15 7|-|3 \/\/4'/ 70 90!!
(If you can read this, you may have visited The LEE7 Speak Translator to translate it!)

 

[G-K-4]

... wut's wurse ees peeple hoo yooze turms laik "laik"....

Speaking of "like", does anyone know why that is used as a placeholder in spoken English? Is it a way to keep from being interrupted when one thinks up the next part of their sentence? Or is it a kind of prevarication in an adolescent realm where any minor error is pounced on?

I had a sixth grade teacher who amusingly pointed out to the wannabe-Valley girls in my English class exactly what they were saying.

I don't know...It's just the language evolving.

On that note, when did "hey" replace "hi"? What is the origin of "hey" as a greeting?

 

[Tormac]

Y u no loverz wordz o Ceiling Kittah!

Ceiling Kittah loverz u.

With no Ceiling Kittah ur soul goze to the basement!

Ceiling Kittah is your frend. K thaiz Bai.

 

[NoZed Avenger]

Im in yur languge, messin with yur civilizashun.

 

[technoextreme]

Is it just me, or does it seem like respect for the English language is circling the drain at this point? We may not be that far from the world of Mike Judge's Idiocracy after all.

You are just too anal not to see a joke as a joke. Either that or really really old. Take your pick. It's one or the other.

 

[Gagglegnash]

Hi

I can't believe I was the first person to post a kitteh.

I hate LOLspeak being used in real life.

While I generally eschew use of LOLspeak in real life, I have found the phrases, "I maked you a pizza, but I eated it," and, "nom nom nom," quite useful....

 

[Safe-Keeper]

I love LOLCats, but I hate "lol" and every other kind of "leetspeek" used on message boards.