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"Oh, Rats!"
http://www.taletn.com/rats/
> > http://vermin-realm.com/lolrats/
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> even sent in a couple of my own pictures:
> http://vermin-realm.com/lolrats/index.php?cat=61&submit=view
Oh, I like the pied-piper rat playing his own tail ;-D

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Its funny, and I've saved a few to email to friends, but I cant stand the
terrible spelling used. Its not like using correct spelling on easy words it
that hard!
Tale - 08 Jan 2008 08:09 GMT
> Its funny, and I've saved a few to email to friends, but I cant stand the
> terrible spelling used. Its not like using correct spelling on easy words
> it
> that hard!
Part of the fun is to try very hard to use the *incorrect* spelling.
- Tale

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Lynn "kitty" - 08 Jan 2008 14:20 GMT
Andrea and I LOVE your LOLs. They are awesome. Makes us realize we REALLY
need to submit our own.
Keep making more, we love them!!!
Lynn kitty
jennjenn84 via PetKB.com wrote:
> Its funny, and I've saved a few to email to friends, but I cant stand the
> terrible spelling used. Its not like using correct spelling on easy words
> it
> that hard!
Part of the fun is to try very hard to use the *incorrect* spelling.
- Tale

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NRen2k5 - 08 Jan 2008 11:59 GMT
> Its funny, and I've saved a few to email to friends, but I cant stand the
> terrible spelling used. Its not like using correct spelling on easy words it
> that hard!
The misspelling is deliberate. It's supposed to come off as child-like.
David Baxter - 09 Jan 2008 17:51 GMT
> Its funny, and I've saved a few to email to friends, but I cant stand the
> terrible spelling used. Its not like using correct spelling on easy words it
> that hard!
It's called "lolspeak", Kitty Pidgin (or Rat Pidgin, in our case), or
Kitteh (Ratteh). Simply because afaik, lolcats were on the scene before
lolrats were, so the terminology is based around them.
This is from Wikipedia:
"The caption is intentionally written with deviations from standard
English spelling and syntax,[8] featuring "strangely-conjugated verbs,
but [a tendency] to converge to a new set of rules in spelling and
grammar."[9] These altered rules of English have been referred to as a
type of pidgin[8] or baby talk.[1] 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.[1] Some phrases have a known source[10] while
others seem to be specific to the lolcat form."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcat
Dave

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