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for the Internet phenomenon known as the LOLcat. Observe the atrocious spelling and grammar (known as leetspeak), which, when applied in a feline voice, is rendered adorable and hilarious.















According to the Wikipedia entry for lolcat:
"These images usually consist of a photo of a cat with a large caption characteristically formatted in a sans serif font such as Impact or Arial Black.[11] The image is, on occasion, digitally edited for effect. The caption generally acts as a speech balloon encompassing a comment from the cat, or as a description of the depicted scene. The caption is intentionally written with deviations from standard English spelling and syntax,[11] (presumably how the cat might type, with typos and spelling errors) featuring "strangely-conjugated verbs, but [a tendency] to converge to a new set of rules in spelling and grammar."[12] These altered rules of English have been referred to as a type of pidgin[11] or baby talk.[13] The text parodies the grammar-poor patois stereotypically attributed to internet slang. Frequently, lolcat captions take the form of snowclones in which nouns and verbs are replaced in a phrase.[13] Some phrases have a known source[14] while others seem to be specific to the lolcat form. Common themes include jokes of the form "Im in ur noun, verb-ing ur related noun."[6]. "I has a noun" pictures show a cat in possession of an object while "Invisible noun" show pictures of cats interacting with said invisible object.[6] "My noun, let me show you it/them" pictures are accompanied by cats apparently presenting or offering an object."

icanhascheezburger.com, a blog of lolcat images, is the 20th most popular blog on Technorati, with 8,974 unique links to it.

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