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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.

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Curious 🤔 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 6 days ago by diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/memes@sopuli.xyz

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[–] stray@pawb.social 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Because people learn to understand language much faster than being able to produce it, both in terms of formulation and pronunciation. For babies in particular, they struggle with the fine motor skills required to produce sounds reliably. Babies can learn to produce nonverbal communication faster than vocal language because it's easier in terms of bodily control.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think "mama", "papa", and "baba" are also some of the easiest things for human babies to say.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 2 points 5 days ago

They are. Mama/dada/papa/nana or similar sounds made with the lips or tongue against the gums are near universal terms for parents across languages because that’s just easy sounds for babies to make early on. We just roll with it and adopted their “words” as the foundation of assigning meanings to a specific sound.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

We taught our babies the sign language for "eat" and that made things a lot easier for everyone.