Bojany

[Jamie Parsons]

The term would be "memes," adopted from Richard Dawkins' "The Selfish
Gene," where it was meant to describe an idea with a drive to
self-replication similar to a gene.  (At least to a gene in his
evolutionary theory.)

Jamie Parsons
Doctoral Student
University of Michigan, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:21 PM, R. M. Cleminson <rmcleminson at post.sk>wrote:

> We will all be familiar with amusing (or in many cases not very amusing)
> pictures or gobbets of text that are reposted from site to site on the
> internet, but I did not know until today that in Russian they are known as
> бояны.  I am now wondering whether there is an equivalent term in English.
>  Does anyone know?
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