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Saturday, February 15th, 2014 04:14 pmSeems there's a new meme in town called doge. If you've been seeing shiba inu dogs (plump foxes with attitude) adorned with semi-sensical language, you've seen it.
And this is why people get PhDs in linguistics:
Another viewpoint, from The Week.
And when did we start having sites with two-word names? Is this a move to borrow newsprint's gravitas?
And this is why people get PhDs in linguistics:
begin quote The second factor that goes into doge is the general principle of internet language these days that the more overwhelmed with emotions you are, the less sensical your sentence structure gets, which I’ve described elsewhere as “stylized verbal incoherence mirroring emotional incoherence” and which leads us to expressions like “feels,” “I can’t even/I’ve lost the ability to can,” and “because reasons.” Contrast this with first-generation internet language, demonstrated by LOLcat or 1337speak, and in general characterized by abbreviations containing numbers and single letters, often in caps (C U L8R), smilies containing noses, and words containing deliberate misspellings. We’ve now moved on: broadly speaking, second-generation internet language plays with grammar instead of spelling. If you’re a doomsayer, the innovative syntax is one more thing to throw up your hands about, but compared to a decade or two ago, the spelling has gotten shockingly conventional. quote endsFind out more, aimed at people without PhDs, from The Toast.
Another viewpoint, from The Week.
And when did we start having sites with two-word names? Is this a move to borrow newsprint's gravitas?