http://markarayner.com/blog/archives/1124 Mark A. Rayner's irregular and explosive weblog Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:35:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://markarayner.com/blog/archives/1124#comment-17995 Phil Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:23:30 +0000 http://markarayner.com/blog/archives/1124#comment-17995 Lolthulhu is pretty entertaining, but the one thing that really bugs me is the fact that they take the whole mangled spelling thing to ridiculous extremes. I thought the point was to disregard spelling conventions, not to be completely incomprehensible. I mean, come on: "gret"? WTF is that? Why not "grayt", "grait", "greyt", or even "grate"? Nobody says "gret", not a devil-may-care marble-mouthed hip-hop slob, not an ESL beginner with a thick accent, not a toddler just learning to speak. Isn't humor supposed to hinge on something tangible or am I missing something here? Lolthulhu is pretty entertaining, but the one thing that really bugs me is the fact that they take the whole mangled spelling thing to ridiculous extremes. I thought the point was to disregard spelling conventions, not to be completely incomprehensible. I mean, come on: “gret”? WTF is that? Why not “grayt”, “grait”, “greyt”, or even “grate”? Nobody says “gret”, not a devil-may-care marble-mouthed hip-hop slob, not an ESL beginner with a thick accent, not a toddler just learning to speak. Isn’t humor supposed to hinge on something tangible or am I missing something here?

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