The next phase of the English language...

[Grant Barrett]

On Jun 6, 2007, at 17:29, James A. Landau wrote:

> I don't know if you heard of the lolcat meme, or if it's been
> discussed on the ADS list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcat for
> definition)...

For what it's worth, we had this famous lolcat on the screen before
the ADS vote in January:

http://boingboing.net/images/dictionary_cat-1.jpg

Also, Erin McKean and I had a small hand in helping Anil Dash flesh
out his theory of kitty pidgin at a party the before this posting:

http://www.dashes.com/anil/2007/04/cats-can-has-gr.html

Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org

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