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A comment on A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016).

Re:A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016) by kube-system on Friday September 24, 2021 @01:05PM (#28645099)
Words are just memes that stick around for a while.
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Re:A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016) by Rendello on Friday September 24, 2021 @10:24PM (#28649916)
My favourite example of this is "ok", which comes from a nearly 200 year-old meme:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-word-ok-was-in...

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Re:A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016) by Lammy on Friday September 24, 2021 @01:41PM (#28645560)
“Unite humanity with a living, new language.”
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