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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Defining words properly isn't gatekeeping, it's categorization.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, defining words narrowly is pretty much the definition of gatekeeping. I hope you're not gatekeeping what gatekeeping means?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You aren't a real gatekeeper if you haven't gatekept gatekeeping before

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, no true gatekeeper.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Defining things properly isn't gatekeeping. You said narrow. I didn't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But who decides what the proper definition is? Your proper definition is for me a narrow if it doesn't take into account the common usage. The definition of meme is widening. Cope with it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm perfectly happy to give orthographic dominion to Webster. They can be our Academie Francaise. They can control the definition drift. And the pedants can use their educational privilege to suppress the poors. As it should be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As it has always been. As God himself intended it as we see in the story of the tower of babel

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not only is it a great origin, that's a fantastic article on it

Thank you so much for sharing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally all the things here including comments are memes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Correct

So basically what I'm saying is that there's a lot of people gatekeeping what a meme is without understanding what a meme is

Or if they're referring to the first of the definitions in the screenshot I shared, not understanding that different people can find things humorous

The biggest meme of all is our spoken languages

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I didn't say they weren't. I just reject the notion that proper definitions aren't gatekeeping. I'm not joining the above argument. I understand the definition is based on usage and the usage has changed. Most humans are morons and don't know how to use words properly so they let language change over time.