To ask - what is sock puppeting?

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And what are TERFs? Help me to understand the MN lingo someone please!

chicken

In theory

Some of them may have been real...but maybe not all

It's pronounced 'meem'

I'm slow

Do not like mimi? What does it mean anyway (ie where does the word come from)? That's not how you should spell it surely?

I'm too old for all this...

Meem fek

Noooooo. Mimi. I've decided.

I'm even slower

What does it mean anyway (ie where does the word come from)?

I don't think it works like that anymore. Weird words just arrive.

Well you learn something everyday.

Feh. Pronounced 'f-ehh'.

Can we say it Fifi? Mimi and Fifi? What is feh anyway?

Is it the same as meh??

'Feh' - verbal shrug 🤷‍♀️. Can be used in many situations to convey frustration, lack of interest or can't-give-a-flying-doodah. One of my favourite non sweary words.

I have worked with both a Mimi and a Fifi.

"Fucking Meh"?

Meh is more 'bland'.

Rufus Is that the OP from the previous thread?

I was one of those random people that popped up to agree with the OP and am definitely not a sock puppet. Just someone who would like people to be able to live as they want to live without such unwarranted vitriol.

I think it might be put

I heard meme on the radio today as "meem", so that is that done.

As for sock puppets, I was just thinking googly eyes.

I am always the most naive in the room!!

I was driving just now and was concerned my thread had turned into a TAAT, but am pleasantly surprised it’s turned into a discussion about how to pronounce meme!

Meme came into usage in the 1970s and originally comes from the Greek word.

en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/meme

Oh bugger, I've always pronounced Meme as "mem-aaay.

Its fine pug

Youve just always sounded well posh

I did too Pug. Until DD heard me and fell over laughing

Meme may have Greek roots but the word itself was coined by Richard Dawkins to mean a unit of culture that is passed on, competes with other cultural units and undergoes change in the process (i.e. it evolves). Classic examples are recipes, folk songs and playground rhymes. It's quite dismal IMO that the word has now come to mean just a picture off the internet with words on it, but heyho, the word 'meme' itself is a meme in the sense that Dawkins meant.

FlamingGalar none of us wish trans people any harm, we are just extremely concerned about what the upcoming changes to legislation will mean for women and girls, as well as children generally, the lesbian and gay community and those trans people who are actually dysphoric. We'd love a vitriol-free debate, but everywhere we turn we are greeted with #nodebate, a lot of horrible name calling and threats and sometimes real physical violence. So things have become a bit tense.