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On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 03:51 PM, Keith Henson wrote:
> At 10:01 PM 11/02/02 -0500, you wrote:
>> Hi Keith Henson -
>>
>> >Infective speech fillers people pick up of the "you know" and "fact
>> of the
>> >matter" are these kind of minimal memes. I am not aware of a term
>> for for
>> >such minimal memes. Suggest one if you wish.
>>
>> Mememurs.
>
> Why? (what derivation does -murs have?)
>
>
I think he means -mers, as in polymers and monomers. But then it should
be polymemes and monomemes, and this requires some notion of a "simple"
meme just as monomer requires some notion of a simple molecule (which is
not, so far as I can tell, forthcoming :-)
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