I mean, it is though. A meme is an idea that has been spread, and even if that wasn’t the literal definition of it, people have modified the idea of what a meme was into what it is now. You are simply outnumbered and clinging to an outdated definition.
I think it’s fair to be frustrated when language is forcibly changed by lazy misuse. We are losing words due to declining literacy and trying to push back on that shouldn’t be seen as a worthless effort.
Obviously at some point numbers win over and then we have folks like you who have gotten comfortable using terms incorrectly and arguing that the definition has changed. And it has. But that doesn’t make it a good thing.
That “lazy misuse” is how you got your idea of what the word means in the first place. That’s how language evolves, and why we say “goodbye” instead of “God be with you”
I mean, it is though. A meme is an idea that has been spread, and even if that wasn’t the literal definition of it, people have modified the idea of what a meme was into what it is now. You are simply outnumbered and clinging to an outdated definition.
I think it’s fair to be frustrated when language is forcibly changed by lazy misuse. We are losing words due to declining literacy and trying to push back on that shouldn’t be seen as a worthless effort.
Obviously at some point numbers win over and then we have folks like you who have gotten comfortable using terms incorrectly and arguing that the definition has changed. And it has. But that doesn’t make it a good thing.
That “lazy misuse” is how you got your idea of what the word means in the first place. That’s how language evolves, and why we say “goodbye” instead of “God be with you”
I have news for you about the history of every word.
But we are inventing new extremely awesome and unimaginably, um, awesome words, like 67, too!
Nothing is being changed, the definition of the word meme always included these things