Wordie: Meme: Comments

Comment by immerbeta, 21 days ago

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:36:19 +0000

Dan Dennett talked about memes and dangerous ideas at TED 2002

Comment by colleen, about 1 year ago

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:18:25 +0000

Comment by npydyuan, about 1 year ago

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:56:27 +0000

Whoops: delayed page refresh. Uselessness beat me to the reference recognition comment.
*cool points demerit*

Comment by npydyuan, about 1 year ago

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:55:20 +0000

Inconceivable!

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:50:25 +0000

You mean like people who say meme all the time, and don't really know what it means? Why, that would be absolutely, totally, and in all other ways, inconceivable.

Comment by colleen, about 1 year ago

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:42:48 +0000

Actually, 82, I thought memesta was clever! I'm absolutely in favor of madeupical words, as John says -- my issue is with the people who... how to put it? I think I must turn to the words of a man greater than I: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:58:26 +0000

Widespread Misuse. Good band name. ;-)

Comment by 82times, about 1 year ago

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:58:47 +0000

oh, meem, of course. there is no question about that. i'm just hoping i'm not part of the "widespread misuse." :!

Comment by John, about 1 year ago

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:53:09 +0000

Dissed why, because you coined a variant? Madeupical words are encouraged. I imagine colleen will be ok with memesta, as long as it's pronounced meemsta as opposed to, say, rhyming with lunesta :-)

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:46:18 +0000

How do you say it?

Comment by 82times, about 1 year ago

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:44:43 +0000

i feel like i just got dissed.

Comment by colleen, about 1 year ago

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:34:27 +0000

the widespread misuse of this term on the web is probably a meme unto itself.

and pronounced, I believe, as meem. not mehm, not mimi, people: meem.

oh, so many rants, so little time...

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:46:28 +0000

Coined by Richard Dawkins.