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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.

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[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

English suffers from adopting a lot of words from other languages. We got a mix of Germanic, French, a bit of Spanish and Italian, and for the US English, whatever butchery the Brits did/do. (See: The Great vowel shift and Soccer) You smash all those languages together and then let the Brits spend a few hundred years mangling everything and see what you get for rules.

Today English is still willing to file the serial numbers off of any cool sounds and claim as our own. So, Damn the Rules! It makes for interesting words.

But I still blame the French for no other reason than I can.

[–] bricklove@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It also didn't help that English was standardizing its spelling as the Great Vowel Shift was occurring

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I also forgot about the early Dutch press operators that old Bill Caxton hired that gave us the silent h in words like ghost because that was close to ghast. And wh got added because they thought it looked better the the standard hw that was common at the time. Ok, that one is kind of a wash.

The standardization of spelling that printing presses require added a nasty list of silent letters to the English language that weren't there before thanks to those early press operators.