GOLD! The academic linguistics of LOLspeak

HT to @jim_croft and thanks to Boing Boing.

BTW this bears out my notion that Why LOLcats are important.

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I can has language play: Construction of Language and Identity in LOLspeak from Lauren Gawne on Vimeo.

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Ai lubz eet wen teh diffurent speeshees kome 2gethur. Caturday is serious business (as @Neerav so rightly pointed out) We’ve all had Caturday mornings like this … Real hipsters are vegetarian? Eek!