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

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

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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.)

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

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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…

... now I hear a talking llama too. Thanks. ;)

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

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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

Italian as well.

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

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

... 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.

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

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Is this the autistic spectrum of the internet expressing itself? Or just kids messing around?

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!

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

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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

From my limited knowledge, Esperanto uses -ido to mean "small"/"baby", so "hundo" is dog but "hundido" is "puppy".

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

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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

You Anglophones do have at least two diminutive suffixes: -ling and -let. They have neutral or slightly negative connotations, though.

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

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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

German also has this, so it's quite curious that English doesn't.

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

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post #35

Is this the autistic spectrum of the internet expressing itself? Or just kids messing around?

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 m…

That is a pretty unkind thing to attribute to autism.

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

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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

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.

> magnify the intensity or size of an adjective or noun, respectively

Not respectively.

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