> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Boris Liberman > 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... >
No, it isn't. It's from the Selfish Gene. Excellent book, well worth reading. 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.
