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DaniSaur @danisaur10/6/2023, 3:01 PM

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mira @mira-drgn10/6/2023, 11:46 AM

the internet has collectively mandela'd themselves about the "little a salami" meme and i can't stand idly by any longer

the grammatically incorrect arrangement of the words is core to what makes the thing cute and amusing in the first place. "cats can have little a salami, as a treat" is a sentence just awkward enough that you could imagine a cat having typed it and that's like, the whole reason it caught on. if you say "X can have a little Y as a treat" you're just saying a fucking normal sentence. you're gesturing at a funny shared cultural experience but you're pointing the wrong damn way. you're waving your arms at a blank white wall and going "eh? eeehh?? get it?" and enough people have done it enough times that now people are just like "well i guess that normal undecorated wall IS pretty amusing" and the wall with the funny mural of a cat typing on a computer is abandoned and gathering dust

"mira isn't this basically being a linguistic prescriptivist, telling people there are correct and incorrect ways to communicate, something that goes against your core principles-" lalala i can't hear you blablablablah

⚡ Twilight Sparkle @twilight-sparkle10/6/2023, 1:15 PM

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in reply to @mira-drgn's post:

~@modulusshift10/6/2023, 1:21 PM

I'm sorry, the meme wasn't strong enough lol

Probably more accurately it just was within the average person's grammatical tolerance and so consistently got erased. "Oh that's a mistake I would make, I'll just correct it for them!"

Upthorn @upthorn10/7/2023, 10:32 PM

My brain definitely autocorrected it in real time until I saw my first "what, no little a is core to the humor" post in like 2021. Which I had to re-read about 5 times to even get what the complaint was.

I can agree that it def adds something, but I think that if that something was key for most people, it would never have caught on (because I think most people didn't even notice)

Lizardguy @Lizardguy6410/6/2023, 2:13 PM

Never heard of this one, but as a man who remembers when "I can haz cheezeburger" was new, I get your point.

Saltbearer (in bold)@Saltbearer10/6/2023, 3:09 PM

I posted this and the very next thing on my home feed is mutual @jeroknite 's share of this post, not on purpose.

Coda @Codarobo10/6/2023, 6:06 PM

To me “as a treat” is actually the main feature of the meme so i really just add “as a treat” to things and ignore the rest entirely

ebu @ebu10/6/2023, 6:09 PM

it took until this very post to realize i have been it reading wrong the whole time. didn't even notice the transposition

@cofruitrigus10/6/2023, 6:34 PM

Do you feel the same way about people using the spiders georg meme and spelling "and" correctly?

@sulfurousacid10/6/2023, 6:40 PM

Ngl my brain never parsed it as "little a" my brian always read "a little"

signal eleven @widr10/6/2023, 6:58 PM

mira can have little a prescriptivism, as a treat

oriana @oriananonexistent10/6/2023, 7:00 PM

but what if we tried "salami little a". we can workshop this meme, really make it shine. kids will eat it up

SnepShark @SnepShark10/6/2023, 7:18 PM

the fact that it would be unreasonable to give Y to X as a treat feels like the point the humor hinges upon to me, rather than the grammar, though that's definitely influenced by the fact I've never seen any version of it use "little a" instead of "a little," haha

Vivian @Raake10/6/2023, 7:56 PM

personally i never found that part of the meme funny in the slightest, moreso just... confusing (and eventually frustrating). it's all in the "as a treat"

Sherliz Holmes @JhoiraArtificer10/6/2023, 7:58 PM

here's the thing: you're right and you should say it

@RippleField210/6/2023, 9:01 PM

I've seen this sentiment from time to time, I've been aware of the original form but I don't agree. First of all it caught on without people remembering it right so that kinda disproves the arrangement is core to its charm, also maybe this is just a me thing but I've always viewed an early iteration of the meme in which Bernie Sanders is proclaiming it to be the default version, it'll always be in Bernie's voice in my head and just him saying "a little salami" is cute and funny enough as is.

fingerless @fingerless10/7/2023, 12:01 AM

i think it's just because "little a salami" has awkward flow. "a little salami" just rolls off the tongue easy.

! a creatures !!@problemnyatic10/7/2023, 9:19 AM

the amount of backlash this has gotten is insane what
you're just correct

van.@expatriate10/7/2023, 5:16 PM

god THANK YOU i thought i was the only one, the internet successfully gaslit me about this

Skye @SeerSkye10/9/2023, 1:35 PM

This exact same thing happens to All Your Base. It's "Somebody set up us the bomb", with up before us, but swapping it around is exceedingly common even though the entire point of the meme is the weird translation.