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>Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:22:03 +1100
> Re: Why memeoids? John Wilkins <wilkins@wehi.edu.au> memetics@mmu.ac.ukReply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>
>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 :-)
>
The smallest meaningful unit of language is the morpheme; how could one combine/contract these two (morpheme and meme) into a single distinctive word? Morph-memes?
>--
>John S Wilkins
>Head, Communication Services
>The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
>Parkville, Victoria, Australia
>
>
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