Bonus 14: The Poetry of Memes - whomst shooketh the bred in the icebox (Patreon)

Roses are red
Violets are dreams
In this episode
We talk poems and memes

There are several recent memes related to poems and mock-old English, and we're excited to talk through the linguistics of memes like Roses Are Red, This is Just to Say, i lik the bred, whomst, and shooketh in this bonus episode. We're becoming more and more convinced that literary criticism is just advanced memology. 

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Previous memes on Lingthusiasm: Australian English and the doggo meme and here's the preview link to the new merch!

• Roses are Red (Know Your Meme)
• Roses are Red (linguist themed)
• Purple (Etymonline)
• Roses are Red (Janelle Shane)
• Roses are Red (arielgitlin)
• Roses are Red (Ed Yong 1)
• Roses are Red (Ed Yong 2)
• This is Just to Say (Know Your Meme)
• This is Just to Say (All Things Linguistic)
• This is Just to Say (Seus version)
• This is Just to Say (Hallelujah version)
• This is Just to Say (Call Me Maybe version)
• Lik the Bred (Know Your Meme)
• Lik the Bred (Analysis, All Things Linguistic)
• Lik the Bred (More Analysis, All Things Linguistic)
• Lik the Bred (Kat Gupta)
• Lik the Bred (Linguistics themed)
• Lik the Bred (Amazing sonnet double-poem version)
• Whomst (Know Your Meme)
• Whomst (Urban Dictionary)
• Historical English person marking (Wikipedia)
• Shooketh (New New York Times)

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