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runecestershire:

So “my name is Cow… i lik the bred” seems to be the Hot New Meme, and I like it. Here’s an odd thing about it, though; a lot of the cutsey animal talk I see on the internet (especially birb-speak) sometimes reminds me of Middle English, but “lik the bred” takes it even further and sounds downright Chaucerian, and it isn’t just the rhyme and cadence. Some of the “lik the bred” pastiches I see around don’t really work because they’re in just plain doggo-fran speak (haven’t decided if Doggo-fran and Birb are the same thing or not), but the ones that really hit all the same notes as the original have something going on with the mangled vowels and spelling that’s not the same as the mangling in Doggo and/or Birb. Maybe some time I’ll gather up some examples and look closely at the vowels and spelling and try and sort out precisely what’s up.

@hobbitguy1420

my name is Cow
i make yu think
of likking bred
and tayking drink
i studdy buks
that i have herd
so wen yur gon
i rite the werd.

now yu may think
wen reeding this
“yu typ with hoofs,
wy dont yu miss?”
i ask yu now
be pashent, plees
i type with tung
i lik the kees

Re: the OP – I don’t think Doggo-fran and Birb-speak are the same at all, but it’s tricky to articulate why (probably because I’m not actually a linguist).

I think Doggo-fran revolves around intentionally switching out syllables in words (or adding them onto mono-syllabic words) – although actually I’m not sure precisely what @runecestershire is referring to here but the other thing that comes to mind is the ‘bork’ meme speak which revolves mostly around the nonsense sentence structure ‘you are doing me a [verb]’. Both cases seem to me to be a lot more specific in usage than Birb-speak.

Birb-speak revolves more around intentionally bad spelling and grammar, often with an overblown sense of urgency to imitate something being typed (and thus spoken) loudly, at high speed and with little accuracy (although there are two slightly different memetic forms of Birb-speak – one originating from the @probirdrights Twitter and the other from the @importantbirds Tumblr and their styles, while similar, are not identical).

But the OP is indeed correct that proper-sounding ‘i lik the bred’ poems have a very specific structure and language to them which is distinct again from the other examples.

I have also noticed this! I thought I was alone in thinking they sounded like middle english!!

A few of the spellings used in the “i lik the bred” poems are almost exactly the same as those in my Chaucer text.

I thought this too…

apparently every nerd on tumblr thought this and for once it took a few days for one of us to write a treatise… are we okay?

ok, see – it took me awhile to come onboard with the lik the bred meme because I assumed it was a a parody of a Chaucerian poem that I hadn’t read and I kept meaning to research it to figure out what poem it was!

I’m pretty sure it’s intentionally a Middle English pastiche isn’t it? Cos it originated in the context of a recreation medieval kitchen.

I love it, I was wondering what the next ‘animal talking in pidgin/misspelled/grammatically odd English’ meme would be.

We’ve had lolcats, doge, birbs and now this. Am I missing any?