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Still don't understand if it's supposed to be pronounced as dog, doggie, dougue. But perhaps that's the point? Either way I've had quite enough of it.

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First time I heard of it was in the context of dogecoin which I assumed was something inspired by the Venetian Republic.

such ignorant, so confuse, nice doge

wow

And this is why I'm not taking anybody serious using that meme. Using it is saying "look at me, I am retarded".

very hate, little understand, when love?

140 char limited tweets. So smart. So cool. Wow.

The intentional breaking of form takes more mental effort than just writing normally.

Good slam on the mentally handicapped, though. Good for you.

> The intentional breaking of form takes more mental effort than just writing normally.

Perhaps you confuse intentional subversion of form with arrant ignorance of same. Judging from my occasional trawls through the reeking open sewer that is 4chan, I'd call the latter plausible, at the very least.

It's not me bragging with or making fun of the lack of intellect.

This video[1], as far as I know, is where the word doge originated. Know Your Meme[2] agrees, for what it's worth.

1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLSgRzCAtXA

2: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/doge

If it helps, the English IPA for "doge" would be /doʊʒ/; if you need a key, Wikipedia has a good one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English

That's correct for dealing with the Doge of Venice, but there are many words in English that have multiple pronunciations depending on their individual meaning. In this canine context you really have to start from 'dog.'

I'll happily argue that, regardless of the path by which a given meme's promulgators happened to stumble upon an actual English word of whose existence they were (and perhaps still are) entirely ignorant, the established pronunciation is correct nonetheless.

Besides, if you start from /dɔːg/, you more or less invariably end up at /dɔːgə/ or /doʊgə/, both of which are so ugly to speak and to hear that arguing against them seems worthwhile.

The existing word Doge is Italian and describes the rulers of a particular few Italian city states, so I don't think generalizing from that makes much sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge

I personally pronounce mem-Doge as Doggie, which I find an amusing parallel to the grammatical mismatches upon which the humor depends.

Doge is indeed originally an Italian word, but it's also a loanword in English [1], this being of course the entire basis on which rests my argument above. And I try not to pronounce the meme version at all.

[1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doge#English

Interesting, I heard it pronounced /dogɛ/ several times.

It's an awful lot easier to appreciate if you actually have a dog and have to spend a lot of time deciphering its communications.

So right. Sad people. No doge.

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