A recent piece at NPR brought a language trend I’ve been increasingly exposed to and even more increasingly picking up: DoggoLingo. Some of you may live on the internet, or know someone who lives on the internet who has recently taken to calling puppies “puppers” or referring to your roommate’s faintly obese cat as a “catloaf.” This person is a victim of DoggoLingo’s adorable charms. Elements of the classic doge meme make their way into meatspace verbal communications.

While the NPR doesn’t explicitly reference it, the use of cutesy, onomatopoeia-heavy language is also apparent in the user generated common names of animals, which is what happens when internet is allowed to name things (cf. Boaty McBoatface). While I’d previously regarded these things safely ensconced in image macros on the web, with maybe “trash panda” bubbling into real conversation for obvious reasons, I had a friend recently forget the word rabbit in favor of the internet preferred “booplesnoot,” and have been told to avoid getting too close to seabarps while out paddle boarding. Unfortunately I have little real-world use for my favorite of these:

Surprisingly not furry

So majestic. So flappy.

So go out into the real world, make a casual reference to a danger floof, rate some fat bois 12/10, good puppers and get a good pic of one of them mleming.