Perhaps I am just too out of sync with society, young people, and/or seeing bad memes. Not only that, but as an extension of the selfie era, people are on the lookout for situations that can become memes! They will create images just for the point of memes which feels sacrilegious, and they’ve missed out on whatever experience they were supposed to be living! This shortened, incorrect language is allowed because of its “origin” and soon, that origin will be forgotten and the curtailed phrases will live on. Even I find myself doing it! Now those grammatical errors are being perpetuated forward. What rankles me though, is that people are using these meme phrases in real conversations. So memes aren’t grammatical masterpieces. Is it a question? Is it a statement? What does “when bae walks toward you” really mean?! (See side rant on terms like “bae” here.) I understand these are short snippets of text if not more of a “title”, but is it so hard to put a question mark or period at the end? Commas are a whole separate battle, but end punctuation leads to my third and final gripe. Second is the atrocious use of – or lack of – punctuation. Quicksand meme full#I argue that many are not even full thoughts. First is the fact that the text included on images is rarely a full sentence. Rather than write a dissertation, I’m focusing on three broad aspects. Starting with point A, let me say that I could easily dig up 100 memes and rant about the grammar of each one. Many are highly amusing and well done, so kudos to all you funny folks out there! That said, what gets my goat is A) the poor grammar used in a vast majority, and B) the way we are beginning to speak in “meme” and think in “meme”. Generally speaking, I don’t have a problem with memes that are in good taste…or at least aren’t blatantly offensive. Webster’s dictionary describes a meme as “an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from one person to another in a culture” or an amusing or interesting picture, video, etc., that is spread widely through the Internet.” You cannot escape the memes.
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