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Sun 2010-10-17 23:42
A thought
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[identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.comMon 2010-10-18 13:56
I admit I didn't really think it through. I associated LOLcats with an _absence_ of capitalization, but hadn't really thought about whether that was all-caps or no-caps. I would have guessed no-caps because it's possibly cuter, but also, many image captions are all-caps or no-caps for style reasons, without it being specifically a grammatical choice.
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[personal profile] simontMon 2010-10-18 14:06
Well, this is clearly the sort of question that needs SCIENCE. Out of the top three screenfuls of Google Image hits for "lolcat" (which was all I managed before deciding I couldn't be bothered collecting any more data), discarding things that are Demotivators-style posters or otherwise not typical image macro work, I count 29 all-caps lolcats, 30 mixed-case and 22 all-lowercase. That seems pretty well balanced, actually. I take back my assertion :-)
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[identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.comMon 2010-10-18 14:22
Cool :) I did pretty much the same, except that I stopped after 0 pages. Unfortunately, I was quite happy to believe whatever you said, as long as I didn't have to look at any lolcats :)
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