& happy meal for kid thx

Anil Dash has a nice article about Lolcats and more specifically about the language they speak, which he calls "kitty pidgin". I'm a regular participant in the I Can Has Cheezburger comments threads, finding them an excellent break a couple of times a day and sure to generate a smile, and I have been fascinated by being part of the real-time evolution of what has been variously described a dialect, a creole, or as Dash describes it, a pidgin language. Lolcat has distinct rules of syntax and grammer that continue to develop organically, and, thanks to the internet, among a large group of people over a very short time. In fact, a number of linguists are keeping an eye on it, as are - not surprisingly - advertisers.

ronnie