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

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They appear to have missed this flowchart!

http://i.imgur.com/HlAul8o.jpg

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.)

... 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.

As if anyone finished that book.

I think my brother and I watched that movie roughly 1500 times. Probably still know every word.

If we're sharing doggo memes the "They're good dogs Brent" one is my absolute favorite. http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/225/812/2b3...

I always look at it if I'm having a rough day.

Source: https://twitter.com/brant/status/775407594802335744

Thank you for that, I needed a wholesome chuckle today.

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

Not just Russian—all Slavic languages I'm aware of have this concept. There's also the opposite, an augmentative, which is a modified version of a noun that conveys stronger intensity.

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.

How would you phrase it? I'm not quite sure how you can magnify the intensity of a noun or the size of an adjective.

I guess he understood (as I did) that you meant respectively to -ito and -ísimo, not to "intensity" and "size".

Italian as well.

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

-id- is offspring, -et- is the generic diminutive.

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

"Dogling" or "doglet". Doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

Actually I love those! I might have to start calling my giant fat kitty a doglet.

>Dogling

It's like a zergling but a dog.

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

The word "dog" already has a well-standardized diminutive form in English, it's just gained a bit of a risque connotation (especially when read online). It is interesting though that "doggo" is seen as a replacement. I thought "doggo" is most commonly used in references to dogs who are, in fact, lying doggo.

> The word "dog" already has a well-standardized diminutive form in English, it's just gained a bit of a risque connotation

What?

It's a very stylish diminutive.

I don't know what word you guys are talking about.

It took me a while but I believe they mean "doggy".

In what context is this risque?

Because of "doggy style"

Oh. Right. Silly me. Thanks for clearing that up.

Doggy? I'm a bit lost, too.

English doesn't have a single very common diminutive suffix like most European languages, but it actually does have very many derivational noun suffixes that correspond to diminutives or augmentatives in other languages and all have slightly different shades of meaning. Doggo, for example, has many friends:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-o#Suffix

It's odd. On the one side, so many of these kind of things feel cringeworthy and weird.

But then some things like this seem to go just that bit further and the effort and feeling behind them makes it all just wonderful and fun again.

Either way it's quite fascinating just how quickly new languages or dialects appear and spread.

Slight addition to the other things in this thread so far: I've really loved the description of "snip snap doggos, not woof bork doggos" to describe scorpions.

> It's odd. On the one side, so many of these kind of things feel cringeworthy and weird.

It's all cringe to me.

Can't believe that this makes it on HN, but post an article about drone warfare and watch it get flagged hard.

As the article briefly mentioned: I don't think doggo originated in memes, I've been using doggo for about 20 years. It's kind of like a Welsh "hey boyo" for dogs.

This is one of the most fun and innocent memes out there. It's a great evolution of language.

Here's another info chart, The Doggo Kingdom

https://i.redd.it/5e7bja88gckx.jpg

It's not a "language", it's a few words.

Bad doggo. Take that back.

"h*ckin"

That's some intense censoring

> Sometimes heck is censored as h* ck. Matt Nelson, who runs the WeRateDogs Twitter account (@dog_rates), says tweets from WeRate popularized h* ck and its derivatives. "I'm sure someone else did that before," he says, "but it was something original to me and I used it to such an extent that people associate it with [@dog_rates] now."

Huh, hadn't seen it around. Interesting. (And missed that line)

that's the joke

It's not a joke, some people are like that.

> There are corgos and clouds, fluffers and floofs, woofers and boofers.

Objection, floof and fluffers are not limited to doggos as amply demonstrated by e.g. https://twitter.com/AnneWHilborn/status/842444796824305665 or https://twitter.com/AnneWHilborn/status/834432563452211201 (#teamfloof has plenty of non-doggo floof)

"All Borks Considered" indeed.

Disappointed. I was expecting a dictionary or something with a bit more structure.

"Harsh realm" = "bummer"

This makes me feel slightly less lost than when I am watching episodes of the pengest munch. I am totally uncool.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge_speak

Would be interesting to see if someone could build a doggo / puppo / etc classifier like the flowchart linked above

found by /r/fellowkids https://www.reddit.com/r/FellowKids/search?q=npr&restrict_sr...

I don't get what they are so upset about. Is it so taboo to write an article about internet culture?

I wouldn't say taboo, it's just a "kids these days" type of story. Someone taking time to analyze something internet culture is doing just for laughs.

It's like critical analysis of an inside joke.

I think critical analysis of an inside joke is very interesting. Particularly in this case, where it's a widespread phenomenon where not everyone will be aware of the history or origin.

Basically, it's Australian

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

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