Tag: language
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Thumbs Up, Peace Sign, and Okay
Summer camp… is there anything more American? I never got the chance to go to summer camp, it just wasn’t a big thing where I grew up, but today this is a very big thing for my kids. We are coming off our first week of both kids being away at camp and the emotions…
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Notes on The Viral Aspects of Language
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A Quantitative Research of Memetic Selection Criteria This is a 92 page senior thesis. It covers the basics of memes but digs into how memes spread and specific research into virus hoaxes. This paper is broken into 4 chapters: Introduction to Memetics Memes according to Richard Dawkins: Meme – unit of cultural transmission. Memes “propagate themselves in…