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jo walsh scr@thegestalt.org
Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:43:32 +0000 (GMT)


> No, I'm afraid you're wrong. Dawkins definitely coined the word 'meme'.=
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> He chose it because a) it sounded like gene and b) because of the french=
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> word m=EAme (circumflexes munged for some no doubt) meaning same

there are also semes and phonemes and lexemes so meme i would say is more
of a contraction of meaning-eme.

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