[unusedandunusable-announce] New post at Unused and Probably Unusable
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Hello,
There is a new post on Unused and Probably Unusable. You can read it at:
http://unusedandunusable.powerblogs.com/posts/1181327805.shtml
It begins:
I didn't want to go down this road. Like most folks
interested in language and linguistics, I read
Language Log, and like most folks aware of internet
memes, I'd visited I Can Has Cheezburger, which was
first discussed on LL in a post titled Kitty Pidgin
and Asymmetrical Tail-wags. As discussed, LOLcats
involve image macros, i.e. pictures of [cats] with
text that fits a meme or macro overlaid. Text of
the form "I can has X?" or "I'm in your X, Ying
your Z" or whatever. Only spelled worse, and with
bad grammar. Intentional misspellings and bad
syntax,...
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