I've been a bit serious in my posts lately with the whole PayPal censorship issue, so I figured I owed people something a little lighter on a Friday. One of the things I like doing late at night is to scroll through "lol cat" pictures. They sometimes make me laugh so hard I cry. What are lol cat pictures? They're pictures of cats in various poses that have text written on it - usually words the cat would be thinking/saying.
A lot of people hate what I've come to call "cat speak", which is basically a mix of net speak, cuteness, and how the English language sounds ("moar" instead of "more"). Sometimes it's without the net speak, and very often it has a wrong ending to the words ("eated" instead of "ate"). Your average lol cat would flunk the simplest English test.
Not every lol cat picture uses cat speak. This one, for example, is a classic "statement":
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Sometimes non-cat speak picture just aren't as funny. This picture, for example, could have a funnier text if written in cat speak:
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Erm, yeah.
But sometimes normal language on a lol cat picture can be funny too:
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Am I done? Not by a long shot! I intend to talk more about lol cats every Friday for a while now, so be ready for the funnieez ^.^ Ahem, aside from that one, I promise not to revert to cat speak myself. But this is a writing blog. What do lol cats have to do with writing? Absolutely nothing other than to get your mind out of the story for a while ;)
Header image credit - this picture, by the way, was the first lol cat picture I ever saw.
