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Okay, this is mostly directed at people who are multilingual and/or involved in online communities that are not in English. Are LOLcats, LOLspeak, et cetera popular in other languages? Whether it is related to cats or not, is there a certain humor or charm or whatever associated with phrasing things in a grammatically incorrect fashion? That is to say, in Spanish, could one say yo tiene un sabor for comedic effect?

What about words spelled so as to be incorrect but still phonetic? I'm actually having trouble thinking about how this would be done in other languages, since English spelling is so bizarre and has so many redundant letter combinations and rule exceptions that it's pretty easy to substitute alternate phonetic renderings for the correct spelling. And what about languages that decline nouns as well as conjugate verbs, or languages like Japanese that are hardly inflected at all?

I've been wondering this for a really long time, and I'm really curious now.

Sidenote: screw you, Firefox spellcheck. "Combinations" is a word.
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QUICK, EVERYONE

I need every synonym you can think of for the word "nonsense." GO!
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Dear life: I apologise for mocking your lack of action-movie excitement. I get your point.

That is to say, today's baseball game was Jesus H. Tap-dancing Christ fucking awesome. I'll be damned if it wasn't the best game I've ever had the pleasure of attending. I'd go on, but I've been foaming at the mouth about it for long enough, and I need to sleep sometime.

Dear world: please stop using the verb "grow" in a transitive fashion. You sound like a bad internet advertisement, and it is driving me crazy.

Edit to clarify: you have my permission to grow a garden, a tulip, a beard and/or a moustache, a third leg, et cetera. However, you are hereby forbidden from growing assets, economies, businesses, or anything else that is not a living thing.

That is all.

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