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At 10:23 PM 9/01/02 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>If you think a cry of pain is not a meme of communication, consider this
>>-- in America we say "ouch" or "ow" when we feel pain. In Japan, they say
>>"itai!" or "itai-o!" In China,............(snip)
>
Hi all
In Australia we are usually not so genteel with our speech. Nevertheless. I
don't think that any word, or even an entire language is "a meme".
Jeremy
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