meme

[Amy West]

On 4/13/12 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:46:36 -0400
> From:    Neal Whitman<nwhitman at AMERITECH.NET>
> Subject: Re: meme
>
> 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
Thank you, Neal! I've been feeling guilty about resisting my
16-year-old's use of the broader sense, and so questioning my
descriptivist self-identity. I'm glad it's not just me.

---Amy West

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