Are words replicators?
Words can be memes, which means that they can be replicators. A good example of this is the competition between two rival coinages for the same meaning: meme and culturgen. Both were created at approximately the same time, in the late 70’s, but today meme has thoroughly defeated culturgen, probably because of its close similarity to gene. An internet search now yields around 11,000 results for memetic (chosen to eliminate confusion with French meme) and 30 for culturgen. Please see Words and Languages.
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