Why Do Lolcats Speak the Way they Do?
Don’t you wonder why lolcats always speak the way they do?
Ever since lolcats - and all the other internet animals - began appearing on the internet, it’s become something of a reality that they have to speak in a strange manner of baby talk.
It could be because cats are considered by most people as animals that can’t really understand human speech. People talk to babies the way they do to teach them to talk. While it’s pretty weird to expect cats to start talking thanks to years of exposure to baby talk, some people think that eventually, cats can actually tell what you want just by listening to the way you speak.
Let’s not discount the fact that babies = cute, and kittens / cats = cute. So maybe there’s a parallelism there somewhere, something along the lines of baby talk = cute.
Of course, not all lolcats are cute. Take this baby, for instance:
