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.)
> 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."
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 :(
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.
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.
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:
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.
Definitely not autistic in my experience. We're experiencing quite the meme revolution, which is a silly thing to say, but DoggoLingo was popularized with the Wholesome Memes subcategory of internet memes.
It's about sharing wholesome, happy, childish experiences with pets. You'd be surprised how normal the people enjoying these particular memes are. I've heard "lil doggo" and "big ole pupper" at the local dog park many times now.
Autists are the ones putting white supremacy logos onto poorly drawn green frogs..you gotta love life to love h*ckin' good doggos!
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.
I guess words are now meagdfhhgffghgfexgbjkiuh your lips on a hand of your hands eternal love you can find a good man to take the pain and he will call you for a while you can find a way out of the way your room can take your breath and you put it on your face and you will be able yyy to the right to the world to be a good man and you can you get your life and everything else we can do it. Know what I mean?
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(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 always look at it if I'm having a rough day.
That's some intense censoring
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminutive
e.g. hermana is sister, hermanita is little sister.
Not respectively.
It's like a zergling but a dog.
What?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-o#Suffix
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)
https://i.redd.it/5e7bja88gckx.jpg
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 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 about sharing wholesome, happy, childish experiences with pets. You'd be surprised how normal the people enjoying these particular memes are. I've heard "lil doggo" and "big ole pupper" at the local dog park many times now.
Autists are the ones putting white supremacy logos onto poorly drawn green frogs..you gotta love life to love h*ckin' good doggos!
It's like critical analysis of an inside joke.
Try spending some time in alt-right meme communities, on 4chan, etc, and form an opinion for yourself.