In French, usually selfies. The Québéc French Language Office (OQLF) proposes “égoportrait” but I’ve only ever seen that used very rarely in more formal written contexts.
I had never seen it in comments from Quebecois, don’t know if it’s used on Reddit (where the community is actually active) and it’s just too new… We already did literal translations of some things, like a post is a poteau (as in, a post that you plant in the ground to build a fence or to fix a mailbox to…), upvotes are positivotes… So why not moimois!
I really thought meme originated from the French meme, meaning self. I thought ppl used it like me_irl, moi meme. I’m realizing this is based on nothing and I might have totally made it up.
“Même” by itself means “same”, “c’est la même chose” “it’s the same thing”, with moi (moi-même) it’s “myself”. “Self” by itself (feels weird to say that) would be translated as “soi”.
Memes to moimois is freaking funny (me = moi in French)
Yes, we do that in German, too. Me=mich -> meme=Michmich.
According to someone from rance they do the moimoi-thing, too.
What do the Germans and/or French call selfies?
Don’t know about the French, but in German you can’t go wrong with Selbsties.
Selbstchen, surely. Which also has the dubious honour of having six consonants in a row. Or Selbstli if you’re fancy?
That sounds swiss though.
Hence fancy ;)
Nein, einfach nein.
In French, usually selfies. The Québéc French Language Office (OQLF) proposes “égoportrait” but I’ve only ever seen that used very rarely in more formal written contexts.
I had never seen it in comments from Quebecois, don’t know if it’s used on Reddit (where the community is actually active) and it’s just too new… We already did literal translations of some things, like a post is a poteau (as in, a post that you plant in the ground to build a fence or to fix a mailbox to…), upvotes are positivotes… So why not moimois!
positivotes sounds much happier
But negativotes sounds much sadder
The use of moimoi is itself a meme.
Memeception
Moimoiception en français!
I really thought meme originated from the French meme, meaning self. I thought ppl used it like me_irl, moi meme. I’m realizing this is based on nothing and I might have totally made it up.
“Même” by itself means “same”, “c’est la même chose” “it’s the same thing”, with moi (moi-même) it’s “myself”. “Self” by itself (feels weird to say that) would be translated as “soi”.
Me, my memes and I
Moi, mes moimois et moi
Au secours c’est trop bizarre à lire “moimoi”.
It’s similar in Spanish. “Mí mismo” means “myself.”
mí = me
mismo = same
Ah, true, sorry!
imo the actual etymology is weirder
it was invented by richard dawkins in the selfish gene in the 1970s
it’s used to describe an “idea-gene”; something that spreads and mutates not through biological means but through communication
like a mind-virus
hence why it sounds like a portmanteau of “memory” and “gene”
Damn am i the only one who knows that meme comes from “culture gene”?
The more you learn 🤓!