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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.

Laittakaa meemejä tänne.

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It's sort of apt by mistake, but it's still stupid (sopuli.xyz)
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sounds cool though

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[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 51 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I love phrases that are repetitions in different languages

The Los Angeles Angels - The The Angels Angels

And so on

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

My favorite:
The La Brea Tar Pits
The The Tar Tar Pits

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Shut up and help me find an automated teller machine machine so I can buy a ticket to the game.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Don't forget your personal identification number number!

[–] cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz 9 points 4 months ago

Hehe. Never heard of that one. I want to know how aware these people are when they name things. In sports, a bit of humor is probably common, but with the neanderthals, I just don't see the high-strung scientists of the late 1800's intentionally making a joke on this kind of thing. I do however see them doubling down on a decision even if it's pointed out that it's stupid.

[–] FoxyGrandpa@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I didn't learn my ABCs AABBCC God God dammit dammit

[–] the_dopamine_fiend@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Miss you, Mitch.

[–] GentriFriedRice@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Then you'll love the List of tautological place names

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks! Idk why but I can never remember the word "tautological"

[–] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My favorite is still Torpenhow hill in Wales. Translated: hill hill hill hill.

[–] cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That one takes the cake! How does that happen? Is there welsh, saxon and latin in there or something?

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 22 points 4 months ago
  • Tor, from Old English torr, meaning hill.
  • Pen, from Celtic *penn, meaning hill.
  • How, from Danish hoh, meaning hill.
  • Hill, from English hill, meaning hill.

^Unfortunately,^ ^it's^ ^not^ ^actually^ ^a^ ^real^ ^official^ ^name^ ^for^ ^a^ ^hill,^ ^though^ ^it^ ^could^ ^be...^

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 12 points 4 months ago

It's actually in England, although funnily enough the part of England it's in is called Cumbria, which has the same origin as the Welsh for Wales "Cymru". So it's sort of in Wales, just not the Wales that we call Wales in English.

Anyway it's Old English torr, Middle Welsh penn, and Danish hoh. And like many British place names the pronunciation is not what you would expect at all at first glance. It's "tra-pen-uh"

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 months ago

brought to you by the department of redundancy department

[–] cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't want to brag, but I learned this from a book

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

worst part for me as a swede is that it ends up being interpreted to mean "neander speaker", since "thal" becomse "tal" which means speech in swedish..

so not only is there the standard "neanderthals stupid and primitive" association, but also there's the added layer of implication that they spoke weird!

[–] cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They did speak weird though! Analysis of their airways suggest that they had a much higher-pitched voice than our kind, and probably had a harder time with consonants. So their language would have certainly been different. Although we have no way of knowing if parts of their language still lives on in our speech today.

Men visst, "talare" blir lite roligt på svenska

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

yeah but like, they most likely weren't going "unga bunga, gurg want hunt mammoth, gurg make pointy stick, ook ook"

[–] cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

No, but we probably sounded something like that way before there were neanderthals and modern humans though. At some point, somebody figured out how to tell their peers that they're going to have to hunt for something big

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

According to Wikipedia, the Neandertal (the valley) was named after 17th century priest and composer Joachim Neander. Where does the "new man" come in?

[–] cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

Right, so I seem to have gotten it wrong on his name. It was Neander (New Man in greek) rather than Neumann (New Man in german), but I should also have specified in the meme that the name means New Man.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago

Wait until OP hears about the laola wave.