• Dicska@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    My folks also do something similar. I’d bet most lemmy/[colour name]dit users of miscellanious languages also have their own form of me+me (I+I). Spanish speakers, is it ‘yoyo’ or just ‘meme’?

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      19 hours ago

      In polish that would be “jaja” when means “balls” (as in testicles) so no polish people don’t really do that

      • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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        9 hours ago

        That’s interesting, considering that the origin of the term “meme” refers to one of two ways people pass down information - culturally (through memes) and genetically (through DNA reproduction.)

        Testicles are too busy working on genetic transmission. They don’t need to be tasked with memeing as well.

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      MeyahMeyah, Memequeas, AymeAymase, AmakuAmak, MjawMjaws, MëMëz, MeMe first & the gimme gimmes, … basically any culture of any creature that communicated has me+me.