Tom Green speaks truth

[Nitro Vordex]

"There's nothing, no redeeming quality to Mudkipz or Barrel Roll at all."

Also, I don't care how old this is, I found it GREAT.

[Chuck_Norris]

Ok, this is confusing me now. Is it pronounced "Me-me" "Me-m" or just "mem"?

[Sord]

I've heard meem and mem

[Nitro Vordex]

I always pronounced it as "meh-meh".

[Sord]

A meme (pronounced /miːm/)

[Nitro Vordex]

mim?

wtf?

[Sord]

no, it didn't copy some symbols right. Dictionary.com audio thing pronounces it Meem http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/meme

[astuarlen]

I always pronounced it as "meh-meh".

Shligger sycophant.

From the Wikipedias:

Historically, the notion of a unit of social evolution, and a similar term (from Greek mneme, meaning "memory"), first appeared in 1904 in a work by the German evolutionary biologist Richard Semon titled Die Mnemischen Empfindungen in ihren Beziehungen zu den Originalempfindungen (loosely translated as "Memory-feelings in relation to original feelings"). According to the OED, the word mneme appears in English in 1921 in L. Simon's translation of Semon's book: The Mneme.

According to Dawkins, who coined the word "meme" without knowing about mnemes, meme represents a shortened form of mimeme (from Greek mimos, "mimic"). Dawkins said he wanted "a monosyllable word that sounds a bit like gene".[4]

I don't have access to the OED online right now, but AHD agrees with the "meem" pronunciation.



EDIT: Nitro, /miːm/ is written with IPA symbols.

[Nitro Vordex]

Why not just put (meem) for it? >_>

Also, I'll still pronounce it meh meh.

[astuarlen]

If you're asking why not just use "meem" instead of "/miːm/", IPA, as the name implies, is used to provide an accurate phonetic representation of pronunciation regardless of language or dialect, as not all sounds are common to every language.
[/linguanerd wannabe]