memeration
<p>n. New word coined based on the generation and meme concepts, and proposed to express the set of all the individuals that in a place and at a time shares a big amount of a common stock of memes.</p>
<p>Just the same way that memetics was formed in an analogical way to genetics from the meme concept, memeration can be formed analogically to generation.</p>
<p>The term and concept of meme first appeared in the 1976 book by Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene. Dawkins defined the meme as "a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation".</p>
<p>Due to the different ways of propagation that genes and memes have, memeration can not have a similar meaning to "a stage or degree in the succession of natural descent (such as grandfather, father, and son are three generations)" but can perfectly have a more loose meaning similar to "all the people born at about the same time".</p>
<p>Historians seems to hold differing opinions as to what extent dividing history into generations is useful or an improper over-generalization; but the word memeration could be used sometimes in a more precise way than generation, even if it is only colloquially.</p>
<p>For instance people that nowadays are for and against divorce, nuclear power and/or trasgenic crops are not people of different generations but people of different memerations; there are both old and young people that are for and against.</p>
<p>The word proposed here, as a humble gift to English speaking wikipedians to thank them for the invaluable aid that their work has supposed to me to write some articles of the Basque wikipedia, is a false translation of the word memerazio coined in Basque at the end of 2004 by people talking about Richard Brodie's book Virus of the Mind.</p>
<p>Just the same way that memetics was formed in an analogical way to genetics from the meme concept, memeration can be formed analogically to generation.</p>
<p>The term and concept of meme first appeared in the 1976 book by Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene. Dawkins defined the meme as "a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation".</p>
<p>Due to the different ways of propagation that genes and memes have, memeration can not have a similar meaning to "a stage or degree in the succession of natural descent (such as grandfather, father, and son are three generations)" but can perfectly have a more loose meaning similar to "all the people born at about the same time".</p>
<p>Historians seems to hold differing opinions as to what extent dividing history into generations is useful or an improper over-generalization; but the word memeration could be used sometimes in a more precise way than generation, even if it is only colloquially.</p>
<p>For instance people that nowadays are for and against divorce, nuclear power and/or trasgenic crops are not people of different generations but people of different memerations; there are both old and young people that are for and against.</p>
<p>The word proposed here, as a humble gift to English speaking wikipedians to thank them for the invaluable aid that their work has supposed to me to write some articles of the Basque wikipedia, is a false translation of the word memerazio coined in Basque at the end of 2004 by people talking about Richard Brodie's book Virus of the Mind.</p>
Origin: (rejected by wikipedia)
July 1, 2005