nsane.forums Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 Twitter has introduced a beta version of the Lolcat language to the site, inviting users to contribute translations and alterations as needed. Now you can finally talk the talk of an early meme.Twitter works for a global audience, but Lolcats have consistently been ignored by the social network. Lolcats haven't been able to use the service in their native language, but a new Twitter update is correcting this injustice. If you head to the settings page, you'll see the following:The option is effectively useless if you don't speak English, since that's all it's available in. Still, if you speak English and want to make everything on Twitter read like an image macro the settings are available. Since Caps Lock is cruise control for cool, it's also entirely in capitals.If nothing else, it brings some attention to Twitter's Translation Center, which can be accessed here. If you're bilingual (or speak Lolcat), you can contribute.It's worth pointing out that Lolcat doesn't affect tweets, though you likely expected this. As you can see in the screencapped tweet from @NeowinFeed (our official Twitter), it merely alters the interface around the tweet.Adding a joke language to a service isn't all that unusual for social networks. Facebook has both 1337-style language and "Pirate" as English variants that can be chosen, so Twitter could just be following in their footsteps.View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calguyhunk Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Great! Just when you thought that you had seen the last of the annoying SMS/Text lingo (gr8, l8r, 2moro etc.), it will once again take an hour and a half to decipher a sentence and a half and that too, without a cute kitten for company :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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