RE: a memetic experiment- an eIe opener

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Tue May 09 2000 - 13:53:08 BST

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Subject: RE: a memetic experiment- an eIe opener
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    On 05/09/00 08:23, Vincent Campbell said this-

    >the more I see
    >you using the term, the less I think it's a useful one.

    Memetically, the operating success of a meme is- 'the more I see you
    using the meme, the more I want to use it too', and, therein lies the
    spreading strength.

    I doubt there will ever be a 'I want to use that too' quality to 'eie'.
    For me, side-comment-wise, it looks like 'eu' the word for 'I' in
    portuguese, and, although my smattering of portuguese is truly feeble, at
    least they _pronounce_ all the vowels in a word- 'eie' is simply and
    essentially, a waste of letters....

    There might, truly, be more of a memetic advantage to using lower case
    'i' or 'eu' or 'je' or 'ich' in the situations you mention. For one
    thing, it is totally language neutral. Then again, as in the case of
    esperanto, neutral languages do not infiltrate.

    - Wade

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