Timeline for When your 10-year old boy says “It’s meta,” what does it mean? In what situation and of what sort of object they use this phrase?
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| Aug 31, 2012 at 17:33 | comment | added | Chan-Ho Suh | Continuing in the vein @JoshuaShaneLiberman started, I don't think it's correct to call the incorrect usage mentioned above a teenager's "definition". There are probably many people that use "meta" incorrectly and inconsistently. | |
| Nov 21, 2011 at 9:20 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi | @Willem Mulder. Your "stolen bike" conversation seemed to me one of the clearest examples of ten-year boys's "It's meta" reference that I could get the idea of the phrase. | |
| Nov 17, 2011 at 15:47 | history | edited | Willem Mulder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 17, 2011 at 15:38 | comment | added | Willem Mulder | Abstract is not to 'simplify', but refers to 'any object' satisfying certain properties without referring to concrete existence of those objects. Often, meta is abstract. Teenagers might not understand the full meaning of 'meta' and instead think it simply refers to abstract? | |
| Nov 17, 2011 at 15:02 | comment | added | Joshua Shane Liberman | I don't know if I agree with the second statement. Abstract means simplify, similar to how abstract art is composed of simple shapes and colors. I don't see why teenagers would associate those two words any more than other demographics. | |
| Nov 17, 2011 at 12:50 | comment | added | Matt E. Эллен | could you give an example that demonstrates this use to mean abstract? | |
| Nov 17, 2011 at 11:14 | history | answered | Willem Mulder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |