Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id EAA14647 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 27 Nov 2001 04:27:56 GMT Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 20:22:53 -0800 Message-Id: <200111270422.fAR4Mrx18207@mail7.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) X-Originating-Ip: [216.76.251.115] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Definition, Please Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
> "Philip A.E. Jonkers" <phae@uclink.berkeley.edu> memetics@mmu.ac.uk Re: Definition, PleaseDate: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 18:09:41 -0800
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>> > > Is "What's up Doc?" memetic?
>
>Phil:
>> >I don't know what inspired you to suggest that but technically speaking,
>> >yes.
>> >Go ask a kid, any kid (provided they can speak a little at least),
>> >if he or she knows that phrase. A 99 out of 100 chance he/she knows it.
>> >And if not, after you have uttered the slogan in front of that kid,
>> >it will stick to his little brain like flies on ...
>> >In fact, too make it a little more bolder, anything verbal is memetic
>> >by definition (and I mean anything), it's only the question how
>> >successful the slogan is or will be.
>
>Scott:
>> Some of us are better at resisting assimilation by the memetic Borg cube
>> than others :-)
>
>Ohmygod, I'm starting to blush right here. What in the devil's name is a
>Borg cube?
>
>> At best, *maybe* a slogan such as "What's up Doc?" qualifies at it rides
>> atop a verbal system, but assimilating the entirety of the verbal system or
>> language itself as memetic...what would the linguists think of this
>> assimilation (and is there going to be accomodation?)? Can they outrun the
>> cube before it's too late?
>
>I couln't really say (see above). Let me elaborate a little on what I mean.
>Literally anything that we say is memetic. Anything that can be captured in
>words (albeit one) can be passed on onto the next guy. It's that simple.
>If it can not be transmitted from person to person, it's not a meme. Since
>`anything' verbal can, `anything' has to be a meme by definition.
>
As is anything technological, for as anything that can be said can be heard and understood, anything that can be done can be shown, imitated and learned.
>
>Philip.
>
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