”A major vehicle for the success of fail has been FAIL Blog, a Web site set up in January 2008 and acquired a few months later by Pet Holdings, a blog conglomerate that has had great success with I Can Has Cheezburger? — the foremost purveyor of “lolcats,” a popular genre of humorous cat photos in which superimposed captions sport playfully poor grammar and spelling.
On Language - How Fail Went From Verb to Interjection - NYTimes.com
That paragraph is full of win. (Via Daring Fireball)
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