[Buddha-l] Memes

[Michel Clasquin]

On 29 Jan 2007, at 4:46 PM, Mike Austin wrote:

> In message <200701241858.08290.rhayes at unm.edu>, Richard Hayes  
> <rhayes at unm.edu> writes
>>
>> What is a meme?
>
> The chameleon-like nature of the meme is due to a structure  
> comprised of letters in various orders.  These letters assemble in  
> any size group. So far, twenty six of these letters have been  
> identified.

True, if you are talking about the western family of memes. But there  
are others. Chinese memes have a rather larger selection of building  
blocks, and even the western variation suffers from a viral infection  
called "punctuation". Or would that be a meta-memal infection?