Comments on: On Guest Blogging by the Technical and Editorial Assistants: A Reader Asks if Lolcat Lingo Taps into Subtle Undercurrents of Linguistic Racism http://thegayrecluse.com/2008/05/15/on-guest-blogging-by-the-technical-and-editorial-assistants-a-reader-asks-if-lolcat-lingo-taps-into-subtle-undercurrents-of-linguistic-racism/ The Gay Recluse: Observation, philosophy and other notes on the beauty and dissonance of life in the city Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:57:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Gay Recluse http://thegayrecluse.com/2008/05/15/on-guest-blogging-by-the-technical-and-editorial-assistants-a-reader-asks-if-lolcat-lingo-taps-into-subtle-undercurrents-of-linguistic-racism/#comment-616 Fri, 16 May 2008 15:33:14 +0000 http://thegayrecluse.wordpress.com/?p=1208#comment-616 Thanks for the comment, Fanzy…interesting. I’ll be curious to see if anyone else weighs in.

]]> By: Fanzy http://thegayrecluse.com/2008/05/15/on-guest-blogging-by-the-technical-and-editorial-assistants-a-reader-asks-if-lolcat-lingo-taps-into-subtle-undercurrents-of-linguistic-racism/#comment-615 Fri, 16 May 2008 13:59:52 +0000 http://thegayrecluse.wordpress.com/?p=1208#comment-615 I was all set to explain away Genghis’ example as an aberration in what is for the most part an infantalizing speech-text style, as opposed to a racialized one. If anything, I thought, the similarities are more a correlation since black caricatured speech is a way of depicting backward blacks as hapless childlike creatures incapable of sticking to linguistic and spelling rules. (I’ve studied Black English so i know the structural patterns – they’re as standardized as any other dialect.)
Unfortunately I then turned to my favorite lolcat website and found the following within the first couple pages:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/05/13/funny-pictures-dey-c-us-trollin-dey-hatin/
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/05/14/funny-pictures-be-in-da-hood/

not to mention the uses of ‘dis’, ‘has’ instead of ‘have’, ‘z’ for plurals… i dunno… you may be on to something.

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