Photographs of cats in compromising situations with captions describing the innermonologue of the pictured cat. The text is usually grammatically incorrect and relies on internet slang or "im" speak.

Funny pictures of kitty cats = ultimate productivity killer.

A humorous picture of a feline, accompanied with a witty caption intended to create laughter.

Hilarious pictures of cats (or sometimes other animals) in cute and/or strange poses with a funny made-up caption. The most popular caption is "I can has cheeseburger?"

A new species of cats specially bred to star in funny pictures. These special cats can be found all over the internet.

Lolcats also are just plain old funny pictures of cats. These are "unofficial" lolcats.
Lolcats usually have bad grammar.

Oh hai thare
So you want to speak lolcat? It isn't very easy and you may end up with some kitty scratches in the end. The purpose of this page is to offer help on proper lolcat syntax and grammar. Don't worry if you don't get it at first. It takes some practice but in the end you'll end up with proper lolcat that is both cute and funny.

This isn't fully written though. I shall be doing that soon. For now, if you really want a crash course go to icanhascheezburger and read the comments there. These are the experts. Yes, really.

Here we go!

General Spelling Rule: Homonymous Misspellings
While some of the rules about spelling pertain to common typing errors, baby-talk, kindergarten misspellings and community-specific mannerisms found on online message boards, the important skill is to learn when using lolspeak is how to borrow the spelling of certain parts of one word to misspell another word that shares certain phonetic sounds (or that just rhymes).

You can mix them around like this:

ghost -> goast or ghoast (borrowing from "toast" or "coast")

feet -> feat (borrowing from "meat" or "heat")

moan -> mown (borrowing from "own" or "mow")

crowd -> croud (borrowing from "cloud" or "found")

nothing -> nuthing (borrowing from the typical sound of the letter "u" as in "umbrella" or "hut")

a series of cats photographed in any number of unfortunate or comedic happenings purely for our viewing pleasure with ill-spelt captions called LOLSpeak