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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Memes to moimois is freaking funny (me = moi in French)

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes, we do that in German, too. Me=mich -> meme=Michmich.

According to someone from rance they do the moimoi-thing, too.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I had never seen it in comments from Quebecois, don't know if it's used on Reddit (where the community is actually active) and it's just too new... We already did literal translations of some things, like a post is a poteau (as in, a post that you plant in the ground to build a fence or to fix a mailbox to...), upvotes are positivotes... So why not moimois!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

positivotes sounds much happier

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

But negativotes sounds much sadder

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The use of moimoi is itself a meme.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Memeception

Moimoiception en français!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What do the Germans and/or French call selfies?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't know about the French, but in German you can't go wrong with Selbsties.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Selbstchen, surely. Which also has the dubious honour of having six consonants in a row. Or Selbstli if you're fancy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Selbstli

That sounds swiss though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Nein, einfach nein.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

In French, usually selfies. The Québéc French Language Office (OQLF) proposes "égoportrait" but I've only ever seen that used very rarely in more formal written contexts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I really thought meme originated from the French meme, meaning self. I thought ppl used it like me_irl, moi meme. I'm realizing this is based on nothing and I might have totally made it up.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

imo the actual etymology is weirder

it was invented by richard dawkins in the selfish gene in the 1970s

it's used to describe an "idea-gene"; something that spreads and mutates not through biological means but through communication

like a mind-virus

hence why it sounds like a portmanteau of "memory" and "gene"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Damn am i the only one who knows that meme comes from "culture gene"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The more you learn 🤓!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

"Même" by itself means "same", "c'est la même chose" "it's the same thing", with moi (moi-même) it's "myself". "Self" by itself (feels weird to say that) would be translated as "soi".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Ah, true, sorry!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Au secours c'est trop bizarre à lire "moimoi".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It's similar in Spanish. "Mí mismo" means "myself."

= me
mismo = same