Memes causing offense!
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They might not know what a meme is but they will know some of them, unless they live under a rock.I've got 4 Uni students in the house aged between 23 & 25 and none of them have heard of an internet meme
On another note memes are fine but they're long dead by the time they've started appearing on OcUK, people on facebook have apparently only just discovered 5 year old memes in the last 6 months.
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It works for all vowels. If there is an e at the end, it makes the pronunciation of the vowel the sound of the letter. So there couldn't really be any other pronunciation of meme.
It just uses the example of I.
And actually I'm not "proud as punch" about it. It was recently a topic for my sons homework, so I thought of Ot when I saw the discussion.
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The first one I could think of was Rick Rolling and they had heard of that but didn't know it was a meme.
Does anyone else know about memes from The Selfish Gene rather than all this recent internet nonsense? 
And Dawkins himself said he wanted 'something that sounded like gene' so...
Mind you, the epic English fail in this thread makes it worth reading alone
And Dawkins himself said he wanted 'something that sounded like gene' so...Mind you, the epic English fail in this thread makes it worth reading alone
Not really, it just gives further examples of words for which the e situated at the end of words indicates specific vowel enunciation but deriving from alternative European sources.
That's a bit bilious, isn't it? All Nat was doing was refreshing the memories of some posters as to very simple phoenetic pronounciation rules. No more was needed, so I'm not sure how you derived that that was the "only thing she learned in primary school", now how she came across as being "proud as punch". sort of begs the question, if Nat appears to be so proud of such a limited grasp of English, where does that leave those who not only mispronounce the word, which is somewhat understandable, but deny that the correct pronounciation is the logical conclusion to reach? It's about as endearing as people who fail at basic addition and subtraction and, rather than accept that they made a mistake, resort to rage and petty slander to attempt to save face.
Sort of like a petulant 5-year old child with learning disabilities.
As an aside, I'll accept that Nat's video link isn't particularly relevant to a word of Greek origins, but it's still noteworthy - the reason being that most would not immediately recognise a Greek origin in words with which they are unfamiliar and so should look to those simple rules of English for the correct pronounciation. I'd go so far as to say that those who could recognise foreign root derivations in unknown words would need little schooling in how to pronounce them.
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Fail.
Aww bless you.
I guess that would sting if I gave a ****.
Life carries on, next we will get on to why half the world cant pronounce Linux, and why anybody should care.
You cared enough to make two posts discussing it.
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Gene, the origin of 'meme'.
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Lol, really? Surprised that anybody would look at that word and not automatically think "meem"
This is exactly what I thought too.
I've got 4 Uni students in the house aged between 23 & 25 and none of them have heard of an internet meme
Ah, these would be those students who go outside, play sport, and talk with people "face to face"?
Don't you mean mee-tay, the-may, cre-may, and sce-nay?
>implying memes are hard to come by anywhere.