meme

[Neal Whitman]

I'll have to grab a copy of this tomorrow to show to my 13yo son, who will
smugly appreciate it. He objected to me giving my wife the original Dawkins
definition when she asked him what a meme was, and told me it basically
meant an Internet meme. After all, that's what everybody he knew thought it
meant. In other words, your friends, I said. R-based narrowing FTW!

Neal

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From: "Ben Zimmer" <bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU>
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Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: meme


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> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>> Maybe we've discussed this.
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>> CNN: "A 'meme' is [i.e., "means"] the latest Internet craze fad [sic]."
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> For more on the evolution of "meme" and the latest Internet craze-fads,
> please
> check out the Winter 2011 installment of "Among The Words":
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> http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/content/86/4/454.citation
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