memespeak

memespeak (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of meme-speak.
   • 1997 December 15, Kathryn Bond Stockton, “Prophylactics and Brains: Beloved in the Cybernetic Age of aids”, in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, editors, Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction (Series Q), Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, part I (Digital Senses), page 58:

     Hardly optimistic in any grand sense—hence they are tagged “sociobiological”—[Richard] Dawkins and [Daniel] Dennett sport a view of insurrection that, nonetheless, has paved the way for hacker appropriation of memespeak as rebellion. (As of July 1995, Dawkins has just appeared on the cover of Wired magazine, touted as a “bad-boy evolutionist.”) Not so much packing memes as equipping the mind in its defensive fight against them, Dawkins ends his book “on a note of qualified hope” (SG [The Selfish Gene], 200): […]

   • 2005 September 30, Simon Young, “Neuropolitics”, in Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, published 2006, →ISBN, part 3 (Transhumanism as a Totalized Philosophical System), page 268:

     In the language of memetics, or memespeak, just as a human body falls ill through infection by a virus, so the insemination of rogue memes into the dominant metameme of the state, whether “oligarchal” (by the few) or “democratical” (by the many), can lead to sickness in society.

   • 2011 September, Cole Stryker, “Tracing 4chan Ancestry”, in Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan’s Army Conquered the Web, New York, N.Y.; London: Overlook Duckworth, →ISBN, page 120:

     According to [Matthew] Haughey, MetaFilter also developed its own memespeak pretty early on. / Probably in the first year, 2000 or so, I noticed people shouting “double post!” to something they’d seen before became a sort of game for people, where they wanted to be first to notice something was old and demonstrate their expertise at MetaFilter.

   • 2012 March 9, Shannon Corregan, “English can absorb assault from texting”, in Times Colonist, 154th year, number 76, Victoria, B.C., page A10, column 4:

     English is continually evolving and changing, and nowhere is that more apparent than through the prevalence of Internet-born “memespeak” and text messaging. “Thru” has replaced “through,” just as “plow” replaced “plough” decades before.

   • 2017 December, Jen Simpkins, “Life Is Strange: The time-bending teen drama that’s a self-aware meditation on fate”, in Nathan Brown, editor, Edge, number 312, Bath, Somerset: Future Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 125, column 3:

     Life Is Strange’s greatest achievement is that despite their cringeworthy memespeak and wooden facial expressions, by the story’s end, you do care about the residents of Arcadia Bay.