In our travels on the information superhighway (does anyone really call it that anymore?) we have found that there seem to be about 4 different “grades” of sites that are written by felines. We attribute this mostly to falling rates of feline literacy.
The lowest “grade” of literacy yields cats who type in an indistinguishable series of letters and possibly numbers, such as aks9skeeeeeee or wenpppppuyyy. While these words have a meaning that may be perfectly understandable to themselves, it isn’t very enjoyable for the more educated folks out there. These are the kinds of cats found cheating at scrabble.
Then you have cats who write in “cutesy-wutesy speak.” This group of feline writers is relatively well educated in reading and writing and can communicate with just about anyone who they need to speak with. They are friendly, loveable, and send “happy purrfday!” cards to their feline friends.
Next comes the graduated cat, a group of cats declining in number, whose literary capabilities are on-par with the average adult human. Their appropriate grammar skills are evident in almost all that they do. They think “purrfdays” are amusing but will send “birthday” cards to their friends.
Finally, you have the cats who are scholars of Catymology, which is defined as “the science and art of cattitude.” It is rare to find a cat who knows so many 4 and 5 syllable words. In fact, we were told of the official Catymology site a few months ago, but we were hung up on our review for many weeks while we took turns looking up the definitions of words like “amanuensis” and “hudhudious.”
We don’t think we are quite up to the level of a Catymology scholar, but are rather students of it ourselves. We apologize that we can’t fully understand the site, but hopefully there are cats out there who are scholarly enough to comprehend and appreciate the glory of the fourth level of feline literacy.
We hereby yield the Cat Site of the Week to Aloysius Katz, a.k.a. Aloysius Pangur Ban, M.F.A. (Master of Feline Arts).
Link: Catymology
Scholarship has its rewards…
We are honored. We read Catnabbit regularly; it’s an inexaustible font of feline news and has a cattitude quotient of approximately 98 percent, as measured by our catometer (Patent Pending). Also, its satire is truly huhudious, in a good way.
Oh, ….