On 4/24/2012 21:17, Bob W wrote:
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
I thought it was a short form of meme-nto - something silly that you
memorize and that returns to you in all kinds of situations...
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