Gretchen McCulloch can see past the Comic Sans and into the beating heart of doge. Let her help you do the same.
This is an excellent and comprehensive analysis of the linguistic aspects of the Doge meme, a common internet joke that involves very specific grammar subversion. This article would be a teacher resource and inform a class discussion defining and analysing this meme, specifically discussing the way that these kinds of anti-grammar jokes are isolated to the internet and paradoxically rely on good knowledge of language to construct. Similarly, students could consider the reasons why these kinds of memes frequently occur in the internet and what about the medium prompts linguistic humour.Â











