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# MEME
i would like to once and for all tell everyone how this is pronounced... its a french word that means 'same' (même) which would explain why people call them memes.. it is pronounced mem

www.wordreference.com/fr/en/translation.asp?fren=meme

utah saints has put me in my place, but this is the only conceivable way i can think to pronounce it until the creator of it tells us
(I helped save b3ta! JayIrwin, Sat 22 Nov 2003, 4:12, archived)
# no it isnt.
it was concieved iirc by richard dawkins. as an english word.


besides, anyone knows that the end e in french words is silent.

fucktard :)

p.s. techo remixofchinese national anthem++
(I helped save b3ta! tef, Sat 22 Nov 2003, 4:15, archived)
# Double-barrelled
Fact Cannon™
(vork and burlap, Sat 22 Nov 2003, 4:16, archived)
# p.s.
we could also argue - common pronounciation of meme.


since we dont have any silent e rules at the end of the word, and it doesnt have an accent. it's not exactly the same word

(I helped save b3ta! tef, Sat 22 Nov 2003, 4:18, archived)
# magic, magic 'e'
turns shin to shine
(I helped save b3ta! verbal, Sat 22 Nov 2003, 4:22, archived)
# magic, magic 'e'
i think they were trying to tell us something.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Kitteny Berk almost certainly drunk, Sat 22 Nov 2003, 4:39, archived)
# how
isit pronounced then?
(I helped save b3ta! JayIrwin, Sat 22 Nov 2003, 4:17, archived)
# well, according to richard dawkins
/meem/

it rhymes with 'gene'
(I helped save b3ta! tef, Sat 22 Nov 2003, 4:19, archived)
# well
i suppose it doesnt really matter since it's a text based medium eh?
(I helped save b3ta! JayIrwin, Sat 22 Nov 2003, 4:22, archived)
# well. you were the one who cared.
:D make up your mind
(I helped save b3ta! tef, Sat 22 Nov 2003, 4:24, archived)
# But why would we need to pronounce an English word
the same as the French version?

You see, they are two different languages, and thus have different pronunciations, even if and when words are borrowed from each other.

/plus what ^He said
(I helped save b3ta! verbal, Sat 22 Nov 2003, 4:16, archived)
# i vote for
"meem" rhyming with "theme"
not "me-me" or "mehm"
(I helped save b3ta! Or is it?, Sat 22 Nov 2003, 4:19, archived)
# i'd always been
led to beliee that it was pronounced "meem" and had some complicated reason for being there, but i can't remember what it is.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% of Gibbon, Sat 22 Nov 2003, 4:23, archived)
# What's a
Beliee?
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sat 22 Nov 2003, 5:15, archived)