Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love for the Puppers(npr.org)
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Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love for the Puppers
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/04/23/524514526/dogs-are-doggos-an-internet-language-built-around-love-for-the-puppers
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This is one of the most fun and innocent memes out there. It's a great evolution of language.
They appear to have missed this flowchart!
http://i.imgur.com/HlAul8o.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/HlAul8o.jpg
If we're sharing doggo memes the "They're good dogs Brent" one is my absolute favorite.
http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/225/812/2b3...
I always look at it if I'm having a rough day.
I always look at it if I'm having a rough day.
Thank you for that, I needed a wholesome chuckle today.
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This is funny but also this one dumb image meme is comparably informative and less cringe-worthy than the article.
Maybe it's not such a dumb image meme then, eh?
It'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.)
(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.)
I think my brother and I watched that movie roughly 1500 times. Probably still know every word.
... now I hear a talking llama too. Thanks. ;)
I don't know if you read Snow Crash but I think this is how it all ends.
"All Borks Considered" indeed.
"h*ckin"
That's some intense censoring
That's some intense censoring
> 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."
Huh, hadn't seen it around. Interesting. (And missed that line)
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Disappointed. I was expecting a dictionary or something with a bit more structure.
Would be interesting to see if someone could build a doggo / puppo / etc classifier like the flowchart linked above
"Harsh realm" = "bummer"
This makes me feel slightly less lost than when I am watching episodes of the pengest munch. I am totally uncool.
As 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.
The 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
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminutive
The word "dog" already has a well-standardized diminutive form in English, it's just gained a bit of a risque connotation (especially when read online). It is interesting though that "doggo" is seen as a replacement. I thought "doggo" is most commonly used in references to dogs who are, in fact, lying doggo.
> The word "dog" already has a well-standardized diminutive form in English, it's just gained a bit of a risque connotation
What?
What?
It's a very stylish diminutive.
You Anglophones do have at least two diminutive suffixes: -ling and -let. They have neutral or slightly negative connotations, though.
"Dogling" or "doglet". Doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
Actually I love those! I might have to start calling my giant fat kitty a doglet.
>Dogling
It's like a zergling but a dog.
It's like a zergling but a dog.
Not 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.
Also 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.
e.g. hermana is sister, hermanita is little sister.
> magnify the intensity or size of an adjective or noun, respectively
Not respectively.
Not respectively.
English doesn't have a single very common diminutive suffix like most European languages, but it actually does have very many derivational noun suffixes that correspond to diminutives or augmentatives in other languages and all have slightly different shades of meaning. Doggo, for example, has many friends:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-o#Suffix
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-o#Suffix
German also has this, so it's quite curious that English doesn't.
Italian as well.
> 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 or https://twitter.com/AnneWHilborn/status/834432563452211201 (#teamfloof has plenty of non-doggo floof)
Objection, floof and fluffers are not limited to doggos as amply demonstrated by e.g. https://twitter.com/AnneWHilborn/status/842444796824305665 or https://twitter.com/AnneWHilborn/status/834432563452211201 (#teamfloof has plenty of non-doggo floof)
Basically, it's Australian
Here's another info chart, The Doggo Kingdom
https://i.redd.it/5e7bja88gckx.jpg
https://i.redd.it/5e7bja88gckx.jpg
It'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.
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.
> 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.
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.
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I don't get what they are so upset about. Is it so taboo to write an article about internet culture?
I 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.
It's like critical analysis of an inside joke.
I 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.