LOL! Consolations

[highlyeccentric]

lolgaimans directs us to the LOLCATZ translator, for all your inane captioning needs.

In an effort to improve the scholarly content currently available in LOLCAT, I present to you a draft paragraph from my current essay, on the Anglo-Saxon Boethius.

TEH OLD ENGLISH TRANZLATOR’S USE OV WYRD  HAS BEEN OFTEN STUDID AS EVIDENCE OV HIS PARTICULAR ATTITUDE 2 COSMIC ORDR AN MAN’S PLACE WITHIN IT.  TEH SORT OV DIFFERENCEZ WHICH R USUALLY HIGHLIGHTD CAN BE FINDZ BY EXAMINASHUN OV CHAPTR 4 IN DA OLD ENGLISH. TEH TRANZLATOR ESTABLISHEZ WYRD AS CHANGEABLE, INFLUENCD BY WICKD DOODZ, AN HOSTILE 2 MANKIND. IT ALSO SPECIFID DAT þU (INVISIBLE MAN)  HEORE NELT STIRAN.  IN DA LATIN, TEH CARMINA AT TEH BEGINNIN OV BOOK 1, CHAPTR 5 EXPRESEZ SIMILAR SENTIMENTS: TEH CREATOR’S CONTROL OVAR TEH NACHURAL WURLD, AN REFUSAL 2 CONROL HOOMAN WILL. TEH MISFORTUNE OV TEH INNOSENT AT TEH HANZ OV TEH WICKD IZ LAMENTD, AS IN DA OLD ENGLISH.  HOWEVR, THAR R SUM SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCEZ WHICH SUGGEST DAT TEH OLD ENGLISH TRANZLATOR HAD MOAR PESIMISTIC OUTLOOK ON TEH ORDR OV TEH WURLD. TEH LATIN CARMINA ENDZ WIF SUPPLICASHUN 2 TEH CREATOR 2 ENFORCE “STEADFAST LAW” ON EARTH AS IN HEAVEN.  TEH OLD ENGLISH, ON TEH OTHR HAND, ENDZ WIF PLEA 4 MERCY 4 MANKIND, 4þA HIT NU EALL WINð ON þA YðUM þISSE WORULDE.  THEES SORTS OV DIFFERENCEZ HAS BEEN TEH BASIS 4 DA THEORY DAT MOD, MOAR THAN BOETHIUS HIM DID, CONCIEVEZ TEH WURLD AS FUNDAMENTALLY DISORDERD AN OPPOSD 2 MANKIND. PAYNE, 4 EXAMPLE, READZ TEH LATIN CONSOLASHUN AS SETTIN UP, THRU CAREFUL SERIEZ OV ANALOGIEZ, FORTUNE AS AN INTRINSIC PART OV TEH WURLD’S ORDR.  TEH OLD ENGLISH TRANZLATOR, IN HER OPINION, DESTROYS DAT SISTEM AN PROVIDEZ NO UNDERLYIN SENSE OV ORDR IN DA UNIVERS.

hehe. "influenzD by wikid doods"

Comments

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see David's face if you handed him an essay in lolcat. That would be something else.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

now imagine *MELANIE'S* face when he shows her that essay.

no. just no. lots of no.

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

:D

[blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com]

That's hysterical! I have a whole bunch of LOLilluminations at home I should post one day. One says PLS BE RESPEKTIN FEWDALISM.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

hehe, didn't Geoffrey Chaucer put up a LOLPilgrim with that caption?

[blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com]

Oh maybe that's what it was! I forgot where I found it. I have a habit of saving pictures to my hardrive without writing down where they came from. Mystery solved, I was just trying to remember where I found it, heehee.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-can-hath-cheezburger.html

[blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com]

Haha! I think my favorites are LOL VINCIT OMNIA and 'im in ur essay, next to judith butler block quote'

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

i like WE IS ALL LOLRUS, US BUCKETS IS IN HEAVEN- even though i had to go looking on Wikipedia to find out what the hell it meant.

[blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com]

Oh I was much much confused by lolcat references to buckets for a long time. I had no idea where it came from. And now that I know...I still don't really understand.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

it's the internet. who understands the internet?

[blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com]

I certainly don't. You know how some people think there will be a robot uprising? I think there will be an internets uprising- it will grow bigger and more powerful than us and some day rule our lives.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

it rules mine already :)

although it does mean i can send emails at weird hours of the night to people going "aaaaargh help i can't translate this thing", and fingers crossed i'll get up in the morning and find they've sent me back the Answer. :D

[blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com]

True, that is a nice function. And it does allow me to vent my sad academic frustrations at an unwilling captive internet audience.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

unwilling? there's no such thing as an unwilling audience on the internet... for verily, if we were unwilling, we would go and read fanfiction!

[blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com]

God help you if you do! Those are scary, scary places, those fan fiction dens. I know people who never made it out alive.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

rest assured i much prefer your academic angst to fanfiction...