Web Semantics: Doge

*This is quite interesting and insightful. It alerts me that “web semantics” are bound to be replaced by some newer vernacular language that’s less web-centric; in the case of “Doge,” it’s the choice of font plus an image of a certain breed of dog that serve as the semantic platform. C0m1c 1337speak typing stunts, dependent on text-only channels, are going out of semantic style; it’s become the sort of thing your uncle used to think was witty.

http://the-toast.net/2014/02/06/linguist-explains-grammar-doge-wow/

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“The second factor that goes into doge is the general principle of internet language these days that the more overwhelmed with emotions you are, the less sensical your sentence structure gets, which I’ve described elsewhere as “stylized verbal incoherence mirroring emotional incoherence” and which leads us to expressions like “feels,” “I can’t even/I’ve lost the ability to can,” and “because reasons.” Contrast this with first-generation internet language, (((

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“The next generation of internet language

“In this sense, doge really is the next generation of LOLcat, (((