What's On Your Meme?

[Lightning Rod]

What is your take on memes?

http://lrodplaypen.wordpress.com/

[Arcadia]

mmm.... it seems that if you treat them as/like memes, they are funny! Nice balls, l-rod! gracias for the link!

[Doreen Peri]

All I know about memes is from taking French in high school.

"La meme chose" means "the same thing."

That's my total knowledge about the word. It means "same" in French.

[Lightning Rod]

no, the French word is not the root, Doreen, but it's similar. The French word is pronounced chOHs and meme rhymes with dream. Meme comes from Gk. mimeme I think. It means to imitate. Memes replicate like genes but in more mysterious ways.

[Doreen Peri]

no, the French word is not the root, Doreen, but it's similar. The French word is pronounced chOHs and meme rhymes with dream. Meme comes from Gk. mimeme I think. It means to imitate. Memes replicate like genes but in more mysterious ways.

In French, "meme chose" meaning "same thing" is pronounced

MEM SHOWS

I don't understand anything that you said. Sorry. I don't know what MIMEME means.

I don't know what you mean by "Memes replicate like genes but in more mysterious ways."

Care to share some links regarding the definition you're discussing? I'm totally not following you.

I clicked the link to your blog and didn't understand that either.

[Lightning Rod]

You can google it, doreen
It's a fairly new concept popularized in a couple of books. Guy named Denkens is credited with coining the word. Memetics is where biology meets linguistics I suppose, post-Watson,Crick and Chomsky.

Memes are essentially anything that is repeated. Rumors are a good example. Why rumors? Because rumors are repeated from person to person and they change as they go (mutate) and they carry information which may or may not be useful or true or valid.

Genes exist. They are groups of base pairs on a DNA molecule. We can see them if we squint with our most sensitive instruments. But even though we can't see them with the naked eye, we can see expressions of their existence. Like begets like, etc.

Memes are pure metaphor. You can see them with the naked eye but they might not exist. They are purely objects of thought. We have no instruments to detect them but we can likewise see their expressions. The 'Heil Hitler' meme was pretty powerful and 'Hail Mary's are also strong and the preamble to the Constitution.

In a physical sense, memes don't exist any more than Shrek exists. Shrek is a perfect example of a meme and a big one. Billions of people know who Shrek is. Shrek transcends race, nationality and species. The Shrek meme includes many other memes. There is the 'inner beauty' meme and the 'nobility' meme. Can you see the 'earnest borgnine' meme?

[SadLuckDame]

I thought this was about, and meant me me me me....
you know? As in all mine, all me, and just me or sumpin' along those lines.

Found this interesting, especially of what mememe is truly all about
Can't 'see' me, but I'm here or that sort of thinking.

[mnaz]

me me me!

[hester_prynne]

Meme in french does mean same.
Imitates...sames, singular or plural it works.
For example: Watch me "same" Carol Channing singing Stairway to Heaven.
Yeah?
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