Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love for the Puppers • Hacker News Board

Re: Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love for the Puppers

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 6:36 PM UTC

bpicolo wrote: post #4

"h*ckin" That's some intense censoring

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Re: Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love for the Puppers

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Post by tedmiston » Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 6:43 PM UTC

ryanisnan wrote: post #5

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

Re: Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love for the Puppers

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Post by bpicolo » Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 7:01 PM UTC

lstamour wrote: post #8

bpicolo wrote: post #4

"h*ckin" 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)

Re: Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love for the Puppers

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Post by accountyaccount » Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 7:03 PM UTC

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.

Re: Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love for the Puppers

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Post by AlexandrB » Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 7:11 PM UTC

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

Re: Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love for the Puppers

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Post by masklinn » Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 7:12 PM UTC

> 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)

Re: Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love for the Puppers

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Post by gkanapathy » Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 7:14 PM UTC

Basically, it's Australian

Re: Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love for the Puppers

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Post by tptacek » Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 7:18 PM UTC

ohstopitu wrote: post #2

They appear to have missed this flowchart! http://i.imgur.com/HlAul8o.jpg

This is funny but also this one dumb image meme is comparably informative and less cringe-worthy than the article.

Re: Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love for the Puppers

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Post by WaxProlix » Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 7:33 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #18

ohstopitu wrote: post #2

They appear to have missed this flowchart! http://i.imgur.com/HlAul8o.jpg

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?

Re: Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love for the Puppers

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Post by jpm_sd » Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 7:36 PM UTC

It's not a "language", it's a few words.