On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:34:36 -0700 (PDT), Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pike predates Dawkins, who I believe made up the term. > (Could be wrong about that.) They are similar concepts, however, in > that a tagmeme is a psychological linguistic construct that propagates > culturally. It's certainly possible that Dawkins read Pike. But it's > also quite likely that he didn't, and made up "meme" as a portmanteau > on "gene" and "memory". On _THE SELFISH GENE_ Dawkins says he coined the term, which was a more euphonic version of "mimeme": http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/formerly-hyper-weird/memetics.html /L/e/k/t/u
