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« on: June 17, 2004, 07:50:18 PM »MB, this is really OT, but can you give me a clue about this word "meme"?
It's mainly used on the Live Journal site to refer to these little daily quizzes and games, but a woman I know used it to refer to a seasonal party she's hosting, and THAT threw me for a loop.
Well, in the case of the Live Journal site, meme is probably short for memetics. Check out the Principia Cybernetica Web site for an explanation.
As for your friend using the term to describe a party, that's a new one on me.
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Is there a standard pronunciation? The only time I have heard it spoken, it was pronounced like the French word "meme" (i. e., "mem"), but that was from a Canadian...
Meme rhymes with dream.