Poll: Your Pronunciation of "Meme"?

[Disaster Button]

I always pronounce it as "Mimi". I found out it was "Meem" later but Mimi is a habit now.

 

[El Poncho]

Mem-ey.

Don't know why.

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

It's meem, right? Memes and genes.

Ninja'd already?

But yeah, it comes from genes.

 

[A Pious Cultist]

Me-me sounds stupid, meem for the win

 

[No_Remainders]

A bit like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJJW7EF5aVk

Well... "Me" more than "Meep"...

 

[Baldry]

Meem! Isn't that the correct term?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT ISN'T A WORD?

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

There is no dispute on this, considering that meme is a coinage with a well documented pronunciation provided by its still living creator. If you pronounce it differently, you're just wrong.

Do a little research. Dawkins wasn't the first to use this term. Going by pre-Dawkins pronounciation, it would actually be mee-mee.

Which is just as dumb as "meem," honestly. Give me "mehm" all the way.

I assume that you're referring to the word mneme, which is pronounced nee-mee (with an 'n' in the beginning, not an 'm'). It is used as a root word to form technical terms related to memory and comes from Mneme the Muse of Memory in Greek mythology.

I suppose you could also mean the French word même (pronounced mehm), which can mean "very," "same," or "even" depending on context. Not the same as the word meme (though même is cited as an alternative inspiration for it), and even if it were borrowed words from other languages often have different pronunciations.

Otherwise you'd have to mean the Greek word "mimema" (pronounced mi-mee-ma) which means "something imitated." Richard Dawkins claims that his coinage "meme" is a portmanteau of the words gene and mimema.

No matter which you mean I don't see your point being valid, unless I missed something. So, what did you mean?

 

[Wicky_42]

First time I tried to say it I went with 'mehm', but that just sounded stupid and defaulted to meem. Then I thought of checking it and had it confirmed. Yay, go me

 

[soren7550]

I try to always pronounce it as 'meem', but sometimes I pronounce it as 'mee-mee'.

 

[octafish]

I've always pronounced it correctly, but then again I first came across the word when doing a course on Post-Modernism at Uni in a small section on memetics. That would have been 1996 or so. I was writing my essays out on a Commodore 64 and printing on a dot-matrix printer. Very much pre-internet.

 

[Triscut900]

Like I'm saying me-me

 

[Merkavar]

its pronounced me-mm. meem is close enough.

or mime if your a new zealander

 

[RanD00M]

Meem. It's the right pronunciation of the word. Why should I pronounce it any other way?

 

[RabbiiFrystofsk]

Fuck, how oh earth am i supposed to start pronouncing it Meem after always pronouncing it as MehMey.

 

[Daft Sikes]

It was always "meem" for me.

 

[RanD00M]

Meem! Isn't that the correct term?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT ISN'T A WORD?

It is a word. [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meme] The dictionary does get updated from time to time.

 

[GLo Jones]

This is very basic stuff Escapists, you're damaging my faith in you as an intelligent collective.

 

[martin's a madman]

It's pronounced 'meem'. Richard Dawkins coined it as a cultural equivalent to a Gene. And 'Gene' is not pronounced Jay-Nay. Or Gee Nee.