Linguistic shifts coming soon to an Internets near you

[Deety]

Cute cats could be key to learning new languages

"We wanted to know what kinds of visual mnemonics were most effective at helping people to learn fast," says Ben Whately, chief operating officer at Memrise.

"The pattern began to emerge that pictures of cats always featured disproportionately among the most effective," he says.
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The team at Memrise crowdsourced the photos for the app and decided to advertise for the post of Director of Cat Meme Creation. They listed all 1,000 phrases they were looking to illustrate, on Tumblr, and asked people to upload their funniest photos. There was certainly plenty of choice.

What they don't realize is that they are CREATING AN ENTIRE NEW LANGUAGE OUT OF CAT PICTURES.

In five years, if you don't speak Kitteh, you won't be able to get a job, read a book, or view the Internets at all.

Prepare now!

 

[Muck]

Woof

 

[bigdog3300]

Woof

Buzz's girlfriend....

 

[BUCKYLE]

So is LOLCAT a dialect now?

 

[Oh8ch]

I can speaks CATBONICS.

 

[buckeyebri]

Brutus, my avatar, says dog dog dog eat dog....wait maybe that was Nugent...

 

[TDunk]

Pussy. Still undefeated.

 

[MaxBuck]

Cute cats could be key to learning new languages

What they don't realize is that they are CREATING AN ENTIRE NEW LANGUAGE OUT OF CAT PICTURES.

In five years, if you don't speak Kitteh, you won't be able to get a job, read a book, or view the Internets at all.

Prepare now!

Man, I heard of some turducken self-serving [Mark May], but woohoo!

Teh werd is miaow.