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Old 12-July-2009, 09:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Romanus View Post
The "bad grammar joke" trend. This is kind of hard to summarize, but it started on sites like icanhascheezburger.com and has steadily infected informal chatboards everywhere, with pictures and phrases like "I paralyzes you" and "I has a flavor", and on and on. It was funny once, but it's been run into the ground, IMO.
This originated, I believe, from the bad "Engrish" of poorly-translated games from Japan, etc. "All your base are belong to me" etc. "Can I has cheeseburger" was popularized by lolcats.

See this video for a more detailed explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jDfSqtG2E4
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