Guide to LOLCats - Grammar
LOLCAT GRAMMAR
LOLcats are notoriously bad at spelling and the use of grammar.
Even the clever ones are rarely an exception.
There is a certain skill in writing like a cat and not like an idiot ‘txt spkr’.
Cats misspell a lot of words but unlike text speak this not just an attempt to abbreviate. the best way to determine if you’re writing like a cat is to repeat (in your head or otherwise) what you has said in a high pitched voice.
If it sounds like a cat or a baby then it’s probably LOLcat speak. If it sounds liek something you has got to decipher then it is no LOLcat speak.
Some basic word changes are below, but these words can be spelled correctly and still be LOLcat speak depending on how many other words are misspelled. Cat’s won’t change so many words as to sound stupid.
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Hi = hai
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Like = liek
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Has = have
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I am = I is or I’z
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They = dey
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That = dat
As with any language the best way to be learnings is by being immersed in it. The more you can be readings LOLcat speak they more you will be learnings it.
If you want to see what a normal sentence would look like in LOLcat speak just type it into the comment box below and it will automatically translate it for you.
Kthxbai.
Stumble it!
May 29th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Okay, this is a test to see of the lolcat filter works. Let’s try the above words.
Hi, I would like to have that please.
I am very interested in how they work.
Post and find out time.
May 29th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
i hart-z lol cats…
May 29th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Hi,
My name is barcode and i like this site almost as much as I like cheeseburgers.
Can I have more pictures please.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Ok. I’m trying this….
Oh my god! I love lolcats! They’re the best kitties ever, way better than normal ones. They’re very funny.
May 31st, 2008 at 8:28 am
Nya… we don’t speak like this do we? Oh god… maybe we do… oh well I’m not good with computers, so i guess it’s normal.
Hey guys anyone know where i can score some catnip?
okay, thankyou bye!
June 1st, 2008 at 3:15 pm
i think your pretty
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:44 am
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.
How now brown cow?
I’m hungry; it is lunch-time, and I do not know what to eat.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
I was wondering if this will actually work. Let test it.
June 4th, 2008 at 12:33 am
Okay so lets see how this works out.
I think cats are perfect and i like them almost as much as pudding!!
June 5th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
I am sitting on a muffin
June 5th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
It is working! Lets celebrate!
With cats and muffins
June 7th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
i’z in ur website, stealinz ur origeyenality.
June 7th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Heh, I’m going to test this out myself. Seems to work for other people, but I want to test it myself.
June 7th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
The redundancy of LOLCatz is somewhat globally known; however, I still enjoy the images for their antics and adorable felines.
June 7th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
This is so fucking crazy
June 7th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Yeah, I think I like LOLcats. I was a bit skeptical at first, but I’ve learned to appreciate the simple humour in something that’s more complex than people give it credit for.
Good work.
I enjoy it.
June 7th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Holy cow. This is kind of incredible. I tend to lapse into lolspeak even in real life sometimes…
June 7th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
i love my pancakes with milk please!
June 8th, 2008 at 1:10 am
A lolcat filter on comments is a lot better than the actual article -.-’
June 8th, 2008 at 1:15 am
hi im a retard
June 8th, 2008 at 2:09 am
lol oh hi there. i would like to eat some televisions.
June 8th, 2008 at 2:12 am
Oh dear. What will the internet think of next, onve LOLCATS get too old?
I’m going to write a love song about this.
June 8th, 2008 at 2:15 am
Hi. I’m really only in this for the LOLcat translator.
“I am in your closet. Outing your gays”
June 8th, 2008 at 2:42 am
hmm i wonder if this will work. all the other coments look pretty interesting, so yeah, just trying it out.
this just in : a rabid kitty cat has gone loose and we can not find him. please help find this lost kitty cat!!!!
June 8th, 2008 at 2:55 am
I’m trying it…
Why hello there, it is nice to see you!
June 8th, 2008 at 4:16 am
whoa I can’t believe I’m typing in lolcat speak! I am a lolcat now!!!!
I’m in your bedroom, stealing your wife!
June 8th, 2008 at 4:53 am
This is sort of ridiculous, but I love it.
June 8th, 2008 at 6:13 am
this is cool! I wonder why there aren’t more comments by now?
Lol!
My, this is going to look interesting…
June 8th, 2008 at 6:22 am
Today is my birthday! I am finally 21! Let’s see how this turns out. Should be fun…
June 8th, 2008 at 8:18 am
HAI!
O RLY?
HEPPY BIRDAY!
O NOES.
June 8th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Hello,
LOLCats have made me laugh on a daily basis! More LOLCATS!!!
June 8th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
cats are nice
June 8th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
oh hi so i liked this site alot but its a bit durr
June 8th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
lolcats are the best kind of cats ever. i have a cheizeburga.
my friend just loves them. i just love them. you do too.
lolcat loves you.
June 8th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
people adore lolcats, and cheeseburgers, and double posts, and accidents, and you, and me, and my language, and me, not you though
June 8th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
if i don’t see a lolcat every day i miss them
June 8th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
This is a useful article, and the filter on the comment section is pretty rad.
I approve!
June 8th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
would you like to partake in my soup?
June 8th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
I want to suck your blood.
June 8th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Thanks for the article and the nifty text filter! LOLCats ftw
June 9th, 2008 at 3:46 am
i really like lolcats. especially the little kitten ones. i have ten fingers and ten toes. i actually think that lolspeak is easy, i just wanted to see if this filter worked.
June 9th, 2008 at 4:59 am
Ooh pretty kitty. I like kitties. They’re so cute.
June 9th, 2008 at 4:59 am
lolcat filters? let meh get sumone speek nomal elnglish for ah sec
this is testing if these filters work if this following text turns out in lolspeak, the filters work
k?
June 9th, 2008 at 5:19 am
testing filter, like totally hi man
June 9th, 2008 at 6:19 am
No, I don’t want my comment to be translated.
June 9th, 2008 at 6:23 am
I like LOLCATs, they make me luagh.
June 9th, 2008 at 6:33 am
I mean, seriously, imagine if these scientists had tried recruiting 15 subjects who drank at least five shots of vodka every day for 20 years? That is, if they could find 15 subjects who were still alive.
June 9th, 2008 at 6:42 am
LOLcats speak is quite possibly the most annoying new form of communication to arise from the internet. Ever.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Ok, lets see if this work.
Basically, I have nothing better to do, which is why I’m doing it.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
This is so much fun
June 9th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
so wat if weez putz in teh lolcats firsts (test line)
so what if we put in the lolcats first
June 9th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
June 9th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
What is the point of lol cat speak? It is demeaning to the people who put captions on pictures that actually make sense.
June 9th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Haha This is hilarious!!!
June 10th, 2008 at 2:30 am
Im catching the 1324 to flinders street
June 10th, 2008 at 2:32 am
is there a lolcat convertor i can download from the internet?
June 10th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Lol, this is funny! I love lolcatz!
June 10th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
I have two cats at my house that do lol worthy things all day. The sad thing is, is that I don’t have a camera.
June 14th, 2008 at 1:04 am
I like pie. I like, chocolate pie, pumpkin pie, & apple pie!
June 21st, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Heehee, this looks like fun!! I love LOLcats, they’re so adorable!! ^^ I wish I typed like this all time, it would be so fun. No, actually, it would be AWESOME!!
hehe sorry for saying so 
Btw…I like to draw
June 25th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
…………that………is………….the………………….STUPIDEST…….way to talk…………..EVER
July 6th, 2008 at 3:21 am
Please feel free to kill the previous comment. I just wanted to use the translator
July 6th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
the two cats I have like ginger cake and melon
July 6th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Taz wants his tummy rubbed
July 8th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
swell kittah thynx caerfuli
July 9th, 2008 at 5:32 am
oh hi,
i was wondering how everyone is doing today?
July 9th, 2008 at 5:34 am
oh hi,
i am lost. are you gay?
July 9th, 2008 at 5:39 am
how come u not answer me? is something wrong. is you gayz?
July 9th, 2008 at 5:44 am
i like chocolates. im nevers going to stop typing likes this.
July 9th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
O hi. i love lolcatz speak. it keeps me on my toes. kthxbai
July 9th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
it kinda messed up on the hi but whatever. kthxbai
July 9th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
By the way, i love BD’s, Declaration of independance!! haha kthxbai
July 9th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Dillon Parsons is the shit btw. i think i like the way bathtubs feel. now that i got your attention, i hate battletoads. bye
July 17th, 2008 at 10:55 am
say hello to my little friend
July 17th, 2008 at 10:58 am
maybe 1 day the whole world will speak using this language…then again maybe not.. but why do my cats look at me funny when i show them the pictures..
July 25th, 2008 at 1:30 am
I miss my cat
July 25th, 2008 at 2:28 am
So how does this work? It just changes everything into the tongue of cats?
July 25th, 2008 at 4:07 am
my kitty doesnt like the lolcats…she says they are the lamesauce.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Happy LOL DAY 8/8
August 24th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Lol, lolcats. Poor cats. I wonder how they feel.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:09 pm
is this for real? it automatically translates text into lolcat speech? You got programmers to create the code?
September 6th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
i have a booboo, it needs more kisses please?
September 14th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
I want this filter. How can I get it?
September 15th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Must try! This is awsome. I totally want this
September 15th, 2008 at 11:48 am
The filter can be had here
http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2004/08/30/text-filter-suite
September 16th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
what is this
can i have a new site please?
okay thank you bye
September 18th, 2008 at 1:56 am
I wish my shaved wrists were even.
October 1st, 2008 at 4:59 pm
We need a program that could accomplish this offline…
October 10th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
I’m emo
I love corners
October 22nd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
I can write essay now?!
November 13th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Is this seriously gonna work??
November 17th, 2008 at 2:13 am
i don’t believe it. i can’t believe it.
can you really make me sound like a cute, silly, somewhat evil minded kitty?