From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Tue 20 May 2003 - 18:24:51 GMT
>
> On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 12:35 PM, Joe wrote:
>
> > I call them memes if their meaning is transmitted from one person to
> > another.
>
> You strangle yourself wrapping this meaning and this meme together.
>
> Define 'meaning is transmitted'. Simple fact is, you can't, and then
> the hands start waving, and the meme is called up from the mystical
> depths.
>
> Call them what you will. You have to show them to us first.
>
> Otherwise, they are pink unicorns in your garden.
>
I already demonstrated that with my 'wedding proposal' post, one to
which, I hasten to notice, you did not reply. When a pattern of sign-
referent strings possessed by one but not another is communicated to
that other so that the other now possesses it, meaning has been
transmitted (like I just did here).
>
> - Wade
>
>
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