https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meme
That's all I know about memes!
Tina
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 4:03 PM Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 4/19/2020 8:58 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
> > I posted a meme
>
> Sigh. Another good, useful word lost.
>
> It's not so much that I object to words being repurposed, as that I am
> frustrated by the hole they leave behind. They
> don't get replaced, at least in the short run, and one is forced to try to
> work around the gap, in order to convey
> meaning effectively.
>
> "Discern", and "differentiate" are perfectly good words, that are being
> stretched to fill in, and one may get more
> precisely there with circumlocutions, but I miss the old "discriminate".
> It was quite precise, thus delightfully self
> defining.
>
> A "meme" used to be something that arose naturally within a culture. One
> could only be identified in retrospect.
>
> I thought that in its new form, it was shorthand for some phrase, idea,
> image, etc. that had "gone viral".
>
> Now, it is apparently something that may be invented by an individual and
> set loose, and is already a "meme" when
> released into the wild, not only after proving itself robust enough to
> spread widely.
>
> There is, of course, a considerable list of words borrowed from other
> languages to represent concepts feelings and
> things that didn't have suitable representation in English. It seems a
> shame that we need to further impoverish the
> breadth and depth of our language, though.
>
> Poor Pedanty Moose
>
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