DOGGO LINGO

INTRODUCTION
Introduction
What are Memes?
The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins
A Darwinian gene-centered approach to cultural
revolution
The concept has evolved; moved past the definition
Multipurposeful
Amusing and relatable
Introduction
How dogs became popular?

A fascination from the earliest times

More popular than ever

Australians Dogspotting

Spreading as a meme
Doggo
Introduction

definition of DoggoLingo; sources

specific variety in terms of vocabulary

doggo-speak

lingo language + -o
Introduction
Fascination with dogs

Matt Nelson (WeRateDogs) : dogs offer us

unconditional love, they represent an innocent
perfection that we cannot really find in other animals

Molly Bloomfield (Dogspotting) : dogs are wholesome

and uplifting

A kind of escapism, a safe haven

Introduction
Dogspotting (Facebook page) 800.000 members

WeRateDogs (Twitter account) 4.5 million

followers

A breeding ground for DoggoLingo

International membership variety of vocabulary

Introduction
Merriam Webster Dictionary:
- doggo, adverb = in hiding; used chiefly in the phrase to lie doggo

metaphorical use of the word dog = negative:

1) to be dog - informal: when something is dog it is of very poor quality (The
film must be a real dog.)
2) to be dogged - if someone is dogged by something, he is bothered,
pestered, haunted by it persistently (Controversy has dogged his entire
career.)
3) dog-faced, adj. ugly
4) dogs meat/dogmeat, n., archaic anything worthless

earlier words derived from the word dog = negative meaning VS

DoggoLingo = positive meaning
MORPHOLOGY
Suffixation
The suffix o:
1. Origin: Australian slang
2. Meaning: diminutive, affectionate way of naming any
kind of dog
The suffix er:
1. Already exists in the English language
2. Meaning: element of cuteness, softness, represents playful
and affectionate language
The suffix ino:
1. Origin: maybe Italian
2. Meaning: something small, diminutive
Misspellings
Borrowing of morphological features
Alternate spelling on Twitter
Misspellings became an integral part of
DoggoLingo
Final clipping / truncation
Fren (friend), doin (doing), hol up (hold up)
Smol (small), tol (tall), thicc (thick), hooman
(human), thot/tot (thought)
Syntax
Utilizing the verb Do:
Do me a frighten!

The verb behaves as a noun:

He did me a bamboozle!
Doin a snooze

A comic effect
Onomatopoeic introflection
DoggoLingo is based on onomatopoeia, words of DL take meaning
from sound
words formed are simpler, directly similar to sounds dogs actually
produce

onomatopoeia is most common in interjections, words like woof or

boof, and the forms derived from them, and that is because the
interjection imitates the sound that the animal would make -

onomatopoeic introflection = a process which takes place in the

root of the word, during which a vowel in the root is changed
ex. bark bork
Gradable diminution
Diminutive - pertaining to or productive of a form
denoting smallness, familiarity, affection, or
triviality;
Diminution: achieved with Suffixation (-let in:
froglet, piglet, or ette in cigarette, kitchenette)
Double diminutive diminutive with two suffixes;
e.g. in Polish: dzwon dzwonek dzwoneczek;
Suffix ino: doggerino, puggerino, pupperino
dog dogger doggerino;
Pupperino
Free and bound morphemes

DoggoLingo (free) mlem, sploot, blop, (bound) -

er, -o, -ino
bound morphemes gradable diminution
(doggerino)
free morphemes - onomatopoeic introflection,
misspelling (bark-bork)
VOCABULARY
Vocabulary
Doggo , n. affectionate way of saying Dog.
Most often used to denote a dog of medium size
Dogger , n.
Doggerino , n.

Puppo , n. a dog of smaller size; not necessarily a

puppy
Pupper , n.
Pupperino , n.
Vocabulary
Floof , n. a dog that is very fluffy

Floofer , n.

Flooferino , n.
Vocabulary
Cloud, n. = a Samoyed, fluffy white dog
Puggo, n. Pug

Corgo, n. = Corgi
*loaf, n. a fat corgi, resembling a loaf of bread in
shape and color

sausage/sosig, n. = a Dachshund

shoob shoober shooberino, n. = all terms used

for Shiba Inus
Puggo
Vocabulary
Boof boofer
Boof, v. when a dog is preparing to bark,
somewhere between a sneeze and a bark
Boofer, n. a dog that boofs, usually a large dog

Woof woofer
Woof, v. bark
Woofer, n. a very large dog, like an Irish Wolfhound
or a Great Dane; the biggest of all dogs
Vocabulary
Mlem, v. and n. when a dog extends its tongue or
a sound which is made by doing so

Blep/blop, v. and n. when a dogs tongue is

sticking out just a little bit or just the name for that
action

Snoot/sniffer, n. a dogs nose

Mlem
Vocabulary
bork, v. and n. to bark
boof, v. and n. the barely audible huffy sound of a
dog thats ready to bark if it gets provoked
boop, v. and n. to affectionately touch with one
finger; to pat
borkdrive (maximum borkdrive) when dogs start
barking and become unstoppable; running while
barking
scritch, v. and n. scratch
sploot, v. and n. a type of stretch where a dog will
lie belly-down with the legs behind them as a way to
relax or to avoid overheating
Sploot
Vocabulary
Smol, adj. - Something extremely small and cute
Tol, adj. - Someone or something that is tall
H*ck, v. A dog-specific swear word
Heckin, adv. intensifier; same meaning as very
Adj. + boi/boye Used to qualify the dog (breed)
- Long boi Borzoi or Dachshund
- Fat boye Overweight Corgi or Beagle
Smol
CONCLUSION
Conclusion
DoggoLingo, a modification of the English
Language
Features: nonstandard suffixation, spelling
alternations, grammatically incorrect expressions
Suffixation with o, -er
Gradable Diminution
Onomatopoetic introflection
Misspelling
Conclusion
Highly productive animal language online

New words / different variations

Firmly established word processes

Potential for new coinages high

They have yet to enter the dictionaries

Conclusion
To enter the dictionaries officially, the words need
to be used in published, edited work for a period
of time

That is not completely unimaginable

The words are omnipresent, but we will have to wait

and see
Conclusion
an escape from the mundane everyday life

sanctuary from the bad, offering a dose of

positivity among the ever-flowing stream of
negativity

dogs in general as wholesome and uplifting, no

matter our differences
Conclusion

All words should be treated with

respect, whether we like them or not.

Words are highly democratic

Virginia Woolf
References
Milojevic, J. (2000) Word and Words of English. English Morphology A-Z,
Belgrade: Papirus (Also available on CD as The Dictionary of English Morphology
Terms, Belgrade: Papirus, 2001)

Milojevic J. (2003) Essentials of English Morphology. Exposition of Concepts and

Workbook Application, Belgrade: Papirus (Also available on CD)

Hrubov, R. (2017) Diminutives in the Internet Language

Deignan, A. (1995) Collins COBUILD English Guides, Book 7: Metaphor,

HarperCollinsPublishers

Woolf, V. Craftsmanship, The Death of the Moth, and other Essays:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcbY04JrMaU
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91d/chapter24.html
References
Boddy, J. (2017) Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love For The Puppers, NPR.org
https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/04/23/524514526/dogs-are-doggos-an-internet-
language-built-around-love-for-the-puppers

Graham, E. (2017) The weird underside of DoggoLingo, blog.oxforddictionaries.com

https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/08/01/doggolingo/

Storie, W. (2017) Wagsters Dictionary: Doggo Lingo, Defined, stories.barkpost.com

https://stories.barkpost.com/wagsters-dictionary-doggo-lingo-defined/

Robinson, J. (2017) The story of rello, rellie, and other Australian terms ending in ie and o,
ozwords.org
http://ozwords.org/?p=7682

Macdonald, C. (2017) Do YOU speak Doggo? From pupperinos to woofers, researchers reveal the
bizarre language dog fans have evolved online, dailymail.com
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4453708/Do-speak-Doggo-Researchers-reveal-online-
language.html
References
Ringo, A. (2017) An Insider's Guide To Internet Dog Terminology, cuteness.com
https://www.cuteness.com/12000052/an-insiders-guide-to-internet-dog-terminology

Feltman, R. (2017) New study asks how your favorite doggos came to be, popsci.com
https://www.popsci.com/dog-breed-evolution-map

Cookson, S. (2017) Weird And Wonderful Internet Dog Lingo, petinsider.com

https://petinsider.com/weird-and-wonderful-internet-dog-lingo/

Peters, M. (2017) Woof? No, try bork! The Internet has a new lingo about dogs, bostonglobe.com
https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/05/16/mlem-mlem-mlem-the-fast-breeding-language-
doggos/zQD1Ctpq7FOchsModege2N/story.html

Shiba Inu Slanguage and The Birth of DoggoLingo, , myfirstshiba.com

https://myfirstshiba.com/shiba-inu-slanguage-birth-doggo-lingo/

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Diminutive
Presenters
Nikola Stankovi
Filip Pavlovi
Tamara Toi
Luka Bosanac
Neda Krsti
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