• Belgdore@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    “Almost like a gene we could point to that says we had a common ancestor centuries ago, we were once so close that we learned the same thing from the same people.“

    Cultural genes are called memes. It’s kind of unfortunate that we usually only think of memes as jokes.

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      8 months ago

      Kind of ironic that you’re complaining about the evolution of language on a post about the evolution of language.

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        8 months ago

        It’s sad to lose a word without which we only have metaphors to describe the concept it represents.

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          8 months ago

          Just go the SCP route and call them Memetic elements or some shit. Same route just modified for clarification.