Of kittehs and kids

One of our cats was up on the kitchen counter this morning (where's he's not supposed to be, BTW; not that any of them think rules apply to them) and was sitting there with on forepaw raised.  I didn't know if he'd hurt his leg or paw, so I started talking to him.  Athos started chuckling and said, "You're talking in Kitteh to him."

Well, um, yeah.  I'm a mom for chrissake!  It comes naturally.  Baby talk and Kitteh (or lolspeak) are basically just different dialects of the same "language".  I can't do the baby talk thing with the kids anymore (unless I'm deliberately trying to annoy the hell out of them), so it's either use it on the "four-legged children" or save it up for the grandchildren we hopefully won't be welcoming for several years yet.  Our preference would be for the boys to become self-supporting, with stable jobs (in this economy?!?); add daughters-in-law to the family; and THEN give us grandchildren.

You know, the traditional lifestyle model.

The one we followed to keep from being permanently disowned.

Only life doesn't always go quite the way one hopes or expects it will, so I'm not going sit here and spout any crap about tradition should always be followed, because equating "tradition" with "right/correct/proper" can be A Really Bad Idea.  The practices of both slavery and back-room abortions could be referred to as "traditional" simply because that's the way our antecedents did things, but I don't think any rational individual could argue that such "traditions" shouldn't be relegated to history books and the WTF were they thinking?!? file . . . and never practiced again!

But somehow I got off topic.  This post was supposed to be about lolspeak.  Although, oddly enough, even that is slowly making its way into the realm of "tradition".  Did you know that there are lolspeak wedding vows available?  How much more traditional can you get than *wedding vows*?!?  Apparently a lolspeak Bible is in the works, too, for those who wish to read and reverence the words of Ceiling Cat.  For pure mind-warping amusement, wander on over to the PAWS Universitee Library to check out the lolspeak adaptation of The Odyssey.  (Yes, I'm referring to the one many of us slogged through in high school English or Literature class.)  It's . . . unique.  And if you want to learn how to actually learn lolspeak as a second language, you aren't left to your own devices: There are classes.  Seriously.  Even I can't make this stuff up!

But back to Kitteh language.  Athos adopted a proper British accent and went off on a rather entertaining spiel about how cats probably listen to thier hoomans their humans speaking lolspeak and would like us to know that they actually speak The Queen's English perfectly well, and so on.

So what do I find later?  This:

more animals

Kismet in action.