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One Day Doge Talk is going to be a programming language.

http://zachbruggeman.me/dogescript/

> such woof much foo bar bat

What next, the International Obfuscated DogeScript Contest?

It makes me uncomfortable that there's an expectation to be part of a certain culture in order to be developer.

Responsibilities

    write much web-based code. very programming. so <script></script>.
    so participation in code review. much scary. no cry pls.
    type type type on computer.
    very building. much system OS/corn. such complicate.
    wow.

Could be [mis]construed as making fun of Asian accents.

How???

I don't know... but if I came across that without knowing the context, I would conclude it was written by a non-english-native speaker, most likely an Asian speaker.

Try an experiment, show the text to other people and ask them to guess the likely national/ethnic identity of the writer.

See "The Simpsons" episode CABF01, "Lisa the Tree Hugger", for some good examples of stereotypical comedic Asian immigrant speak:

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Bart: Man, I need a job.

[passes the You Thai Now restaurant]

Thai Man: [comes out of restaurant] You need job? I have job for you.

[they both enter the restaurant]

You take these.

[hands Bart a stack of doorknob signs]

You hang Thai menu on door. I get more business. Send daughters to small liberal arts college. Swarthmore, maybe Sarah Lawrence. Call professors by first name. Ha -- dynamite!

Bart: Hang 'em on the door. Got it.

...Bart finds the job too hard, and tosses then menus in dumpster. The restaurant owner finds him...

Thai Man: You quitter! [sing-song:] Quitter boy! Quitter boy!

Bart: I'm sorry.

Thai Man: Now restaurant fail. Children go to state college. Serious students powerless against drunken jockocracy. Baseball hats everywhere.

Bart: Hey, man, this job is too dangerous.

Thai Man: Menu boy no be coward, like shrimp; menu boy be brave, like prawn.

...montage of Bart training...

Thai Man: Menu boy must move silently, like ghost. Leave no footprint, only lunch specials.

[hands Bart some menus]

Bart: Hai! [Bart flips around, covering a wing chun dummy with menus]

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The text quoted by Edmond does have the same kind of speech patterns.

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