Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id DAA12069 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 12 Feb 2002 03:15:00 GMT Subject: Re: Why memeoids? Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:09:38 -0500 x-sender: wsmith1@camail.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas Est Veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-Id: <20020212030923.017A31FD46@camail.harvard.edu> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Hi Keith Henson -
>Sorry Wade, you came too late to the party. There are 5 pages of web links
>on google for memeoid and it looks like every one of them is in the mode of
>the meaning I suggested for the word 17 years ago.
Story of my life. (What party...?)
I've always preferred 'memebot' for the person in thrall to a belief, if
one must invoke memes suchly, as I wont not to. (Dawkin's 'pigeonbrained'
is perhaps more fitting.) Although, coming from a skeptic's perspective,
"TB", for True Believer, is more often seen.
Being true to the suffix "-oid", it might perhaps be said that memeoid,
if denoting a person, is poor usage.
-oid suff.
1. Resembling; having the appearance of; related to.
2. One that resembles something specified or has a specified quality.
No reason not to be a party-pooper.
- Wade
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