Meaning of memespeak | Babel Free

Examples

“Hardly optimistic in any grand sense—hence they are tagged “sociobiological”—[Richard] Dawkins and [Daniel] Dennett sport a view of insurrection that, nonetheless, has paved the way for hacker appropriation of memespeak as rebellion. (As of July 1995, Dawkins has just appeared on the cover of Wired magazine, touted as a “bad-boy evolutionist.”) Not so much packing memes as equipping the mind in its defensive fight against them, Dawkins ends his book “on a note of qualified hope” (SG [The Selfish Gene], 200): […]”

“In the language of memetics, or memespeak, just as a human body falls ill through infection by a virus, so the insemination of rogue memes into the dominant metameme of the state, whether “oligarchal” (by the few) or “democratical” (by the many), can lead to sickness in society.”

“According to [Matthew] Haughey, MetaFilter also developed its own memespeak pretty early on. / Probably in the first year, 2000 or so, I noticed people shouting “double post!” to something they’d seen before became a sort of game for people, where they wanted to be first to notice something was old and demonstrate their expertise at MetaFilter.”

“English is continually evolving and changing, and nowhere is that more apparent than through the prevalence of Internet-born “memespeak” and text messaging. “Thru” has replaced “through,” just as “plow” replaced “plough” decades before.”

“Life Is Strange’s greatest achievement is that despite their cringeworthy memespeak and wooden facial expressions, by the story’s end, you do care about the residents of Arcadia Bay.”

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