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    • Posts: 733 Member
      meme
      /mēm/
      Noun
      An element of a culture or behavior that may be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, esp. imitation.
      An image, video, etc. that is passed electronically from one Internet user to another.

      If you google it, you'll also have the option of clicking on a little speaker and listening to it

      ARG I did the same thing but you beat me to it

      "Define "whatever word" in google will give you the definition
    • Posts: 35
      I have always pronounced it meem Idk if its right but no one has ever corrected me lol

      That's because this is correct

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
    • Posts: 1,541
      A meme (pron.: /ˈmiːm/; meem)
    • Posts: 1,857 Member
      It's "MEEM".
    • Posts: 567 Member
      My 15 yo nephew told me it's pronounced "meem".

      I always thought it was "me me" like it's spelled, but, as he pointed out to me, I'm old so I wouldn't know the right way to say it. :noway:
    • Posts: 40 Member
      It is pronounced meem. There is no question about this.

      Richard Dawkins created the term, and specifically stated that he wanted it to sound like "gene".

      Direct citation from his book is in the wikipedia article
    • Posts: 1,593 Member
      I always thought it was "meh me"
    • Posts: 1,056 Member
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      that is the correct way:

      Dictionary.com
      meme
      [meem] Show IPA
      noun
      a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes.

      Being right makes me moist.
    • Posts: 376
      It's me-m. Like me, then just a plain m sound. Mimi is me-me, in fact, I call one of my grandmothers that.
    • Posts: 9,487 Member
      I pronounce it "meem" as in rhymes with "cream".

      http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/meme

      :)

      This. And if my teenage kid tells me how to say something internety I know it is correct. Meem!
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      Yeah, meem!
    • Posts: 3,863 Member
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      Being right makes me moist.
      In for moistness.


      Also, I will straight up smack anyone who pronounces it "me-me."
    • Posts: 319 Member

      It would be pronounced mémé in French ( m-eh m-eh)

      ^^This^^
    • Posts: 1,119 Member
      Since it was started as a variation on the word "Gene", I always pronounced it in the same manner. Meem
    • Posts: 3,452 Member
      Like "chem"
    • Posts: 9,151 Member
      My friends and I have always pronounced it "mehm" as in the first syllable of "memory"

      You are not alone.
    • Posts: 1,283 Member
      I pronounced it "Mi-mi" for the longest... But it's "Meem."
    • Posts: 14,776 Member
      We always pronounced it meem in my anthropology classes. I don't know how the internet pronounces it.
    • Posts: 4,741 Member
      Is it pronounced the same in the United States as it in in Canada?

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    • Posts: 890 Member
      meem. The second e changes the sound of the first e from a short vowel ( eh sound, like men) to a long vowel.
    • Posts: 471 Member
      meem is how I've always pronounced, and never thought otherwise..lol, though honestly, if I heard someone say "meme" I would laugh.hahaha
    • Posts: 1,018 Member
      Yall be wrong. Down here in these parts we pronounce it "maam"
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      It would be pronounced mémé in French ( m-eh m-eh)

      This is the correct way as I understand it but my family says me me ;D
    • Posts: 16,356 Member
      I always pronounced it like I was saying men but with an m. I only hear it said like meem. I think I was wrong and have since changed my pronunciation (just in the last few weeks actually).
    • Posts: 41,865 Member
      WTF is meme?? Please enlighten me????

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    • Posts: 552 Member
      "meem"

      /endthread
    • Posts: 3,038 Member
      Is it pronounced the same in the United States as it in in Canada?

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      Z = ZED not ZEE!!!!
    • Posts: 47 Member
      It's pronounced meem. I think Tumblr did a very scientific sort of study on the subject. *nods* For science.
    • Posts: 2,394 Member
      Does that word even exist outside of the internet?

      I've only ever seen it in writing and have never spoken it.
    • Posts: 377 Member
      If you're really from the internet, you'd know....
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