> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > John Sessoms > Sent: 24 April 2012 16:18 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OT: Fun new photographic meme > > From: Ann Sanfedele > > > so Who who thinks this is fun? > > > > also - > > what is a "meme"? > > > > ann > > > > On 4/23/2012 21:19, Darren Addy wrote: > >> As with all things meme-ish, your mileage may vary. > >> http://epicowling.com/epic/ > >> > > Academics trying to analyze & explain the internet came up with the > idea of the "meme" as a building block of cultural information, > performing a function in the evolution of culture similar to what genes > do in biology. >
Richard Dawkins coined the term in The Selfish Gene, not to explain the internet but to use as a term for ideas that take hold in people's heads and spread whether they have any real merit or not, ability to survive and replicate being the only measure of success. 'Meme' is a meme; popular songs; religion; stupid bad-Latin plurals like statii and virii. The idea is supposed to demonstrate that self-replicators don't have to be physical like genes. The word is derived from the suffix -eme which is used in linguistics to denote a smallest unit of something, like morpheme and phoneme. I can't remember what the m- is for. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
