• Victor@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Huh. That’s not how I grew up with the term.

      E.g. “it’s become a meme at this point” doesn’t make sense if it refers to an instance, as well as it does referring to the concept of the joke.

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        9 months ago

        Why not both? In English, every word is a noun, a verb and an adjective, each with 28 1/2 meanings, anyway.

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          9 months ago

          lol, I mean, sure. Let me rephrase: am I the only one who remembers the word meme to originally mean only the conceptual joke format rather than a specific sample of the joke format?

          That’s probably better. (?) 😁