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Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love for the Puppers
- Ultramax 9y agoIs this the autistic spectrum of the internet expressing itself? Or just kids messing around?
- criley2 9y agoDefinitely not autistic in my experience. We're experiencing quite the meme revolution, which is a silly thing to say, but DoggoLingo was popularized with the Wholesome Memes subcategory of internet memes. It's about sharing wholesome, happy, childish experiences with pets. You'd be surprised how normal the people enjoying these particular memes are. I've heard "lil doggo" and "big ole pupper" at the local dog park many times now. Autists are the ones putting white supremacy logos onto poorly drawn green frogs..you gotta love life to love h*ckin' good doggos!
- graphitezepp 9y agoThat is a pretty unkind thing to attribute to autism.
- criley2 9y agoWhen it comes to autism in memes, it's pretty obvious. But I understand why honest perception bothers people. Try spending some time in alt-right meme communities, on 4chan, etc, and form an opinion for yourself.
- ohstopitu 9y agoThey appear to have missed this flowchart! http://i.imgur.com/HlAul8o.jpg http://i.imgur.com/HlAul8o.jpg
- tptacek 9y agoThis is funny but also this one dumb image meme is comparably informative and less cringe-worthy than the article.
- WaxProlix 9y agoMaybe it's not such a dumb image meme then, eh?
- tptacek 9y agoIt's the weirdest thing with me, but I'm a parent of a certain age and though my kids are now teenagers soon to be off to college I still remember their pre-school years vividly and one aspect of those years was that I saw "The Emperor's New Groove" about 9,000 times, and as a result any time someone on the Internet ends a sentence with ", eh", my brain automatically attributes the whole thing to David Spade's voice role as Kuzco (because "... eh, Pa-cha?") not just for that comment but, like, forever. There is a small group of people for whom I can only read their comments in David Spade's voice while imagining them as a talking llama, and, as you can now surmise, that group is slowly but surely growing, and it is a weird way to live life but that's how it is. (Incidentally, if you haven't seen it: it's one of the very best Disney movies, and one of the few I'd go out of my way to see as an adult.)
- gknoy 9y ago... now I hear a talking llama too. Thanks. ;)
- tptacek 9y agoI don't know if you read Snow Crash but I think this is how it all ends.
- kasey_junk 9y agoAs if anyone finished that book.
- QuinnyPig 9y ago"All Borks Considered" indeed.
- bpicolo 9y ago"h*ckin" That's some intense censoring
- lstamour 9y ago> Sometimes heck is censored as h* ck. Matt Nelson, who runs the WeRateDogs Twitter account (@dog_rates), says tweets from WeRate popularized h* ck and its derivatives. "I'm sure someone else did that before," he says, "but it was something original to me and I used it to such an extent that people associate it with [@dog_rates] now."
- bpicolo 9y agoHuh, hadn't seen it around. Interesting. (And missed that line)
- milquetoastaf 9y agothat's the joke
- Ultramax 9y agoIt's not a joke, some people are like that.
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- ryanisnan 9y agoDisappointed. I was expecting a dictionary or something with a bit more structure.
- DoctorNick 9y ago"Harsh realm" = "bummer"
- ryanisnan 9y agoThis makes me feel slightly less lost than when I am watching episodes of the pengest munch. I am totally uncool.
- DoctorNick 9y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge_speak https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge_speak
- tedmiston 9y agoWould be interesting to see if someone could build a doggo / puppo / etc classifier like the flowchart linked above
- accountyaccount 9y agoAs the article briefly mentioned: I don't think doggo originated in memes, I've been using doggo for about 20 years. It's kind of like a Welsh "hey boyo" for dogs.
- AlexandrB 9y agoThe Russians had this figured out centuries ago with a robust grammar for diminutives [1] that can be applied to almost any noun. Meanwhile us poor english speakers are forced to create new words instead :( [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminutive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminutive
- thegeomaster 9y agoNot just Russian—all Slavic languages I'm aware of have this concept. There's also the opposite, an augmentative, which is a modified version of a noun that conveys stronger intensity.
- kornish 9y agoAlso Spanish: the -ito and -isimo suffixes magnify the intensity or size of an adjective or noun, respectively. e.g. hermana is sister, hermanita is little sister.
- kmicklas 9y ago> magnify the intensity or size of an adjective or noun, respectively Not respectively.
- kome 9y ago
- masklinn 9y ago> There are corgos and clouds, fluffers and floofs, woofers and boofers. Objection, floof and fluffers are not limited to doggos as amply demonstrated by e.g. https://twitter.com/AnneWHilborn/status/842444796824305665 https://twitter.com/AnneWHilborn/status/842444796824305665 or https://twitter.com/AnneWHilborn/status/834432563452211201 https://twitter.com/AnneWHilborn/status/834432563452211201 (#teamfloof has plenty of non-doggo floof)
- gkanapathy 9y agoBasically, it's Australian
- jpm_sd 9y agoIt's not a "language", it's a few words.
- randyrand 9y agoBad doggo. Take that back.
- fokinsean 9y agoHere's another info chart, The Doggo Kingdom https://i.redd.it/5e7bja88gckx.jpg https://i.redd.it/5e7bja88gckx.jpg
- IanCal 9y agoIt's odd. On the one side, so many of these kind of things feel cringeworthy and weird. But then some things like this seem to go just that bit further and the effort and feeling behind them makes it all just wonderful and fun again. Either way it's quite fascinating just how quickly new languages or dialects appear and spread. Slight addition to the other things in this thread so far: I've really loved the description of "snip snap doggos, not woof bork doggos" to describe scorpions.
- 3131s 9y ago> It's odd. On the one side, so many of these kind of things feel cringeworthy and weird. It's all cringe to me. Can't believe that this makes it on HN, but post an article about drone warfare and watch it get flagged hard.
- aaronhoffman 9y agofound by /r/fellowkids https://www.reddit.com/r/FellowKids/search?q=npr&restrict_sr=on&t=month https://www.reddit.com/r/FellowKids/search?q=npr&restrict_sr...
- Houshalter 9y agoI don't get what they are so upset about. Is it so taboo to write an article about internet culture?
- aaronhoffman 9y agoI wouldn't say taboo, it's just a "kids these days" type of story. Someone taking time to analyze something internet culture is doing just for laughs. It's like critical analysis of an inside joke.
- ekimekim 9y agoI think critical analysis of an inside joke is very interesting. Particularly in this case, where it's a widespread phenomenon where not everyone will be aware of the history or origin.
- pnathan 9y agoThis is one of the most fun and innocent memes out there. It's a great evolution of language.
- shiftoutbox 9y agoI guess words are now meagdfhhgffghgfexgbjkiuh your lips on a hand of your hands eternal love you can find a good man to take the pain and he will call you for a while you can find a way out of the way your room can take your breath and you put it on your face and you will be able yyy to the right to the world to be a good man and you can you get your life and everything else we can do it. Know what I mean?