For those of us who spend countless hours clicking around the internet, the language of websites, comment sections, and silly internet jokes comes quite naturally. But what of the souls who don’t speak fluent Interweb?
Last week, my boyfriend turned to me while reading the Jezebel comments and asked, “Why do the commenters spell everything wrong?” When I asked him to explain, he said, “Well, they always write ‘kitteh’ instead of ‘kitty’ and ‘puppeh’ instead of ‘puppy.’ Is that on purpose?” And that is when it hit me: my boyfriend had no idea what LOLSpeak was.
My first reaction was “Where the hell have you been for the past 8 billion years?” LOLSpeak has been all over the internet for what seems like forever, and is so overdone at this point that one wonders if it may, finally, be on its way out. Yet my boyfriend had completely missed the wacky internet phenomenon, and it was nearly impossible to explain it to him without sounding like an idiot:
“Well there’s these cats,” I began, “and people post pictures of them, you know, like doing things? And then people write captions for these pictures, but they spell things wrong. You know? Like a cat is saying them, only cats are cats and they can’t really type? I Can Haz Cheezburger? Does that make sense?”
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