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"Doge" is even more childish and cancerous than ragecomics. In 2 years most of us will try to forget how popular it once was.
by fosap 13y ago
"Doge" is even more childish and cancerous than ragecomics. In 2 years most of us will try to forget how popular it once was.
- zaroth 13y agoStill don't understand if it's supposed to be pronounced as dog, doggie, dougue. But perhaps that's the point? Either way I've had quite enough of it.
- elag 13y agoFirst time I heard of it was in the context of dogecoin which I assumed was something inspired by the Venetian Republic.
- brokenparser 13y agosuch ignorant, so confuse, nice doge wow
- fosap 13y agoAnd this is why I'm not taking anybody serious using that meme. Using it is saying "look at me, I am retarded".
- stefan_kendall 13y agoThe intentional breaking of form takes more mental effort than just writing normally. Good slam on the mentally handicapped, though. Good for you.
- fosap 13y agoIt's not me bragging with or making fun of the lack of intellect.
- aaronem 13y ago> The intentional breaking of form takes more mental effort than just writing normally. Perhaps you confuse intentional subversion of form with arrant ignorance of same. Judging from my occasional trawls through the reeking open sewer that is 4chan, I'd call the latter plausible, at the very least.
- brokenparser 13y agovery hate, little understand, when love?
- VladRussian2 13y ago140 char limited tweets. So smart. So cool. Wow.
- aaronem 13y agoIf it helps, the English IPA for "doge" would be /doʊʒ/; if you need a key, Wikipedia has a good one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English
- puzzlingcaptcha 13y agoInteresting, I heard it pronounced /dogɛ/ several times.
- anigbrowl 13y agoThat's correct for dealing with the Doge of Venice, but there are many words in English that have multiple pronunciations depending on their individual meaning. In this canine context you really have to start from 'dog.'
- aaronem 13y agoI'll happily argue that, regardless of the path by which a given meme's promulgators happened to stumble upon an actual English word of whose existence they were (and perhaps still are) entirely ignorant, the established pronunciation is correct nonetheless. Besides, if you start from /dɔːg/, you more or less invariably end up at /dɔːgə/ or /doʊgə/, both of which are so ugly to speak and to hear that arguing against them seems worthwhile.
- anigbrowl 13y agoThe existing word Doge is Italian and describes the rulers of a particular few Italian city states, so I don't think generalizing from that makes much sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge I personally pronounce mem-Doge as Doggie, which I find an amusing parallel to the grammatical mismatches upon which the humor depends.
- aaronem 13y agoDoge is indeed originally an Italian word, but it's also a loanword in English [1], this being of course the entire basis on which rests my argument above. And I try not to pronounce the meme version at all. [1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doge#English http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doge#English
- anigbrowl 13y agoIt's an awful lot easier to appreciate if you actually have a dog and have to spend a lot of time deciphering its communications.
- VladRussian2 13y agoSo right. Sad people. No doge.
- russellsprouts 13y agoThis video[1], as far as I know, is where the word doge originated. Know Your Meme[2] agrees, for what it's worth. 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLSgRzCAtXA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLSgRzCAtXA 2: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/doge http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/doge