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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.

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Coming up with new names is hard (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Most names are essentially just landmarks of some sort.

Hamburg is derived from Hammer Burg, simply meaning hammer castle.

Part of Hamburg is Altona, which is lower German for all too near, because it's really close to Hamburg.

East of Hamburg is Lübeck, which is means "settlement of the lub", whoever the lub were.

Even farther east is Warnemünde, which is located at the mouth (Mund) of the river Warnow.

Said river is getting pretty wide a bit upstream, which gave the city of Rostock its name ("where the river gets wider").

East of that: Stralsund. It's the sound (the water kind) of Strela.

And so on and so on.