LOLspeak: truly stupid

My older son, David Ricardo Palmer, recently sent me a message about LOLspeak.

I don't know if you are "up" on LOLspeak, but it's the crap that kids text to each other. It is somehow associated with Cats and Cheeseburgers now, and so this group has translated ALMOST THE WHOLE FREAKIN' BIBLE into it. John 3:16 is translated, ""So liek teh Ceiling Kitteh lieks teh ppl lots and he sez 'Oh hai I givez u me only kitteh and ifs u beleeves him u wont evr diez no moar, k?'"

Amusing? maybe, but it certainly doesn't cut down on keystrokes. And why all those stupid misspellings, especially the ones that don't save keystrokes? The bible in LOLspeak? Lord, save us.

Comments

[Phil]

Maybe in 4 years, when these folks are in college, Mankiw will have a LOLspeak version of his micro text out. Then I'll be able to get through to the kids. ;-)

[Gabriel]

Ha! Everyone knows it's stupid. But that's no reason not to do it. If anything it's a reason TO do it.

Also, you can get into that place where you use it ironically and then you use it meta-ironically and so on...

[Rebekah K]

Actually, it's genuinely funny. Or, correction, teh funneh. It's the lolcat bible, derived from the reference to "ceiling cat", roughly the equivalent of another deity who pokes his nose in at inopportune moments to disapprove. see: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Ceiling_Cat, or subject yourself to hours on end of lolcats at I Can Has Cheezburger? (http://icanhascheezburger.com/ ) But the lolcat bible is a really well-done homage/parody of the KJV.

The misspellings are because cats are too lazy -- er, superior -- to bother with actually learning such unimportant stuff as spelling, grammar, and syntax.

I defend the beasties and they let me sleep, occasionally. ;-)

[Smitty]

i'd never heard of lolspeak, but following your link, then also looking it up on wikipaedia, i see it's quite different from the text crap that folks use to save keystrokes (& perhaps because they don't know any better). lolspeak seems like it's intended to parody the crappy spelling of many internet posters (specifically, the type who post pictures of cats, with amusing but poorly spelled captions). apparently there's some history to the ceiling cat & cheeseburger stuff. i gotta say, i like the use of ceiling cat for god though...
people with so much time on their hands...i'm jealous.

whoops, i see rebekah already got that stuff said. whatever, i'm posting my comment anyway.

[Hercule Poirot]

Yesterday, David Ricardo Palmer was described as "my son." Today, you refer to him as "my older son."

I strongly suspect that a serious crime has taken place at the Palmer household some time between 10:07 AM on the 13th of this month and 01:55 PM today.

My chief suspect at this time:

http://tinyurl.com/qns4qc