M Is For Murder. stan
On Apr 24, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Bob W wrote: >> 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. -- 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.
