Part of our online culture is a fascination with things that most people had never heard (or thought) about a generation or two ago. For example, it’s nearly impossible to spend much time on the internet without running into memes (rhymes with “teams”), those little bits of shared culture which are passed along from person to person on an individual basis. The photo of a delighted looking cat titled “I can has cheezburger!” is one example; and the word “noms” now appears in TV commercials in reference to hopefully tasty food.
Then there are tropes (rhymes with “ropes”) which celebrate the metaphorical use of words or expressions…
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