RE: Play it again Sam

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 20 2001 - 11:17:56 GMT

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From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
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Nah, that's an American mispronunciation. We in the UK know its a chaise
longue. A little like American pronouncing aluminium as aluminum, and herbs
as erbs.

Only kidding, you are right of course that phrases can change subtely in the
literal sense of spelling, but have sigificant changes of meaning.

Vincent

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> From: Richard Brodie
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 4:20 am
> To: Memetics List
> Subject: Play it again Sam
>
> One interesting example of simple meme mutation is the "chaise lounge."
> From what I have read, the original phrase was "chaise longue"-"long
> chair" in French. English-reading minds misread it into a symbol closer to
> their existing vocabulary and repeated it.
>
> Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com www.memecentral.com
>
>
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