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It's not a meme, it's a valid use of that word.
by Spare_account 8y ago
It's not a meme, it's a valid use of that word.
- bloak 8y agoSure. It's used in patents, for example. But recently it has been massively overused in online discussions and it's no longer funny (if it ever was). It seems to roughly fit this definition of "meme": "an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by Internet users". Clearly this is the wrong place for this discussion. Is there a right place to discuss it, from a linguistic/sociological/stylistic point of view? Not that I really should... I'm just trying to avoid an unpleasant task that I really ought to be doing.
- Spare_account 8y ago>Is there a right place to discuss it, from a linguistic/sociological/stylistic point of view? The first place that springs to mind is https://english.stackexchange.com/ https://english.stackexchange.com/ I've seen other forums with good quality contributions on topics like this, I think one of them was for people speaking English as a second language looking for advice from native speakers. The name eludes me at the moment but if I come across it again I'll respond here with it.