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Hi welcome to Chili's Muggle Studies. It's Wednesday, my dudes! Nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.


Another day, another study of muggles. Aren't we lucky, folks! There's so much to do, so much to see! AnYwAy. Super dupes exciting and your Professor is waiting for you inside the classroom with a HUGE and very AWKWARD smile on his face. As you walk in, you'll notice that the usual desks have been replaced with round tables that sit FOUR students each. At the center of each of these tables is a stack of papers that are flipped upside (for! a! reason!) so that all you see is BLANK nothingness. Finneas asks that you leave them untouched until he tells you it is time to look at them.

Speaking of that weird noodle of a guy, Professor Schmoe can be found at the front of the room, leaning against a long, rectangular table (aren't shapes the best?). He's nodding as you walk in, but he's mostly paying attention to his newest toy: the YO-YO. Up and down. Up and down. Real fascinating stuff. He was working up to a world record.
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Anyway, AnYwAy, ANYWAY. It's almost time for class. Grab a seat at one of the tables and buckle up for a grand tiiiiime.

OOC: HEY. welcome to our first MS lesson of the year (ooc). seeing as it is mid-october IC, y'alls students would have had plenty of classes with the Schmoe-bro already. it's all very exciting he's a v weird guy. while you're here, please take a look at the classroom rules. i'll post in about 24ish (give/take, probably give) hours to officially start the lesson.

CLASS HAS BEGUN! No late arrivals unless you are willing to face IC consequences!


Lesson Progress:
+ Greetings and Q1: What are some of the different means that muggles use to communicate with one another? What do you know about them?
+ Responses to Q1 and Q2: What do you know about MEMES? General or specific memes! And why might muggles use memes as a method of communication?
+ Mini-Activity: Work by yourself, in pairs, or with your table to jot down ideas of what the 6 provided memes are used to convey/communicate. Give each meme a title.
+ Mini-Activity Post 2: You still have 18ish+ hours!
+ Final Activity: Create your own meme!
+ Final Phase of Activity: Meme Tour around the room! Also feel free to finish memeing if you haven't had the chance!




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This was meant to be his class. If there was nothing else, THIS should've been the class he excelled at and knew all the answers for. There was even a small part of the boy that hoped he would be the local expert but listening to his classmates, it became very clear they all already knew enough about "muggles" and he was running out of ideas.

The boy slumped some in his seat, not sure what else he could really bring up. Some had mentioned broad topics, instead of picking something from that topic. He'd be an idiot to go mentioning specifics now.

BUT.

He wanted to give an answer. "Um, the rumour mill, Sir. But...um....not like with magic and appearing and disappearing ink, just good 'ole fashion news that gets distorted the further from the source it gets by word of mouth and embellishing and few records to keep things straight. That's how mum finds out what what's happening in the neighbourhood. They have a book club, yeah, and they talk about everything but the book over tea."

Sometimes they let him sit and listen.
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Noah grinned as he watched the Professor burst into laughter at his comment. Okay, he LIKED Schmoe. He got Noah's sense of humor for sure. With that the boy gave him a salute as he was seated. A few moments later, Minjae came and joined his table. Hello Huffelpuff friend. Minjae received a BIG smile from this Gryffindor.

Class began and the Professor was giving them a monologue about doing the pre-reading. He heard Minjae's whisper and nodded. "Uhh. Yeah... He recommended it in his posting of the class, didn't he?" offered Noah. The Gryffindor ALWAYS made sure he did his pre-reading but he could help his Hufflepuff mate out. Next the Professor was asking a series of questions. What are some of the different means that muggles use to communicate with one another? What do you know about them?

Noah raised his hand. "Another form of communication that some people use are emails to keep up with family members that are a long way away. It's also still used for business applications but also some chain e-mails," he shuddered at the thought of the last one he had seen. It had start something with: If you are reading this...

Those emails never ended well.
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She rubbed her face to stay awake and smiled as more students joined the table she was sitting at. "Hi. I've been good, thanks!" she replied to both Yolanda and Noah and nodded politely at Missa and Minjae. Oh, Yoyo was switching tables? Jina chuckled, remembering how hard she tried to avoid sitting with older students when she was a third year. Anyway, class was about to begin and thankfully, she was now more awake. She had to admit that she often did not complete reading assignments for Muggle Studies, because she already knew most of the content and had to spend more time on her weaker subjects. She hoped Professor Schmoe wouldn't get mad because of that ... she tried her best to not let him find out. She raised her hand confidently to answer the first question about communication methods.

"Muggles can communicate and have discussions on websites called internet forums. Person A displays a message, Person B displays another message as a reply and so on."
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Ewan's suggestion to Carsyn made Jillian smile but then suddenly the class started. Maybe later, when they're in the middle of doing some activity. That'd be fun.

Call it what you want, Professor Schmoe... that thing is still a toy but there is no debate on it. She agrees that yoyo-ing can be a form of art and that if he had time she would love to learn how to do some yoyo tricks. That would be extra fun. She'd purchase one if Hogsmeade had those.

Muggle communication, this was something Jillian had to ponder on and it is taking her much longer to come up with a different answer because the ones that pop up in her head are being called out fast: e-mails, phone things, those twitter stuff whatever that is, even letters. But she did remember one more "Anything with a radio transceiver, professor" she raised her hand. "like a walkie talkie" some muggles still use it right?
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Luckily, Oda was still alone. She didn't care. She just stared at Schmoe from her seat and hated him silently. Hated all of them silently. Did they all know how insufferable they were? Did they realise how annoying they were with their chirpy voices, their waving hands, their stolen glances across the classroom? Odaline hated them all.

Hand up, she offered her answer. "Email."

No more, no less.
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The good kind of clowns.

Flora, of COURSE, laughed at Professor Schmoe's joke about calling her STUDENT, but in true Gryffindor fashion, she had failed to read whatever it was she was supposed to read before the lesson. Did it stop her from raising her hand to give an answer, though? No. No it did not. Muggle communication? Yeah, she didn't need to read about THAT. She knew about that already!

"Rocks, Professor. Muggles use rocks to communicate." How? Well, she was going to tell them all how. "If you throw rocks at people's windows," Or just throw them at the people, really, "they will start yelling at you and yelling is a form of communication."

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Heath nodded in reply to the professor. He hardly expected the man to have a light-up yo-yo, but it would've been awesome if he did! Maybe he'd give him one… Never mind, class was starting! He looked toward the front as Schmoe started talking about, well, for lack of a better word, talking. Specifically the different methods people use to talk to each other. He supposed that explained the table setup and the papers. Were they going to use the papers for some sort of muggle communication with the other people at their tables?

Heath was getting ahead of himself. For now, he focused his attention on the question. As soon as he heard the question, his thoughts immediately went to phones. He used the phone all the time at home to talk to his muggle grandparents! Unfortunately, that was one of the first things somebody said, and there was no sense in repeating it. Same with every other idea he had… television, radio, video calls, social media… all mentioned before he had the chance to speak. Yeesh, he really needed to think faster!

So if all those things were already said, what was left? Heath wracked his brains, trying to recall some overlooked detail from the reading assignment, but it was a completely unrelated memory that gave him an idea. He remembered seeing telegraph machines appear in a lot of the historical dramas he watched. It was a big box-looking thing that muggles used to tap out messages to each other… or something. He wasn't exactly sure how it worked. Still, his hand went up, and he said, "It's not very widely used anymore, but before things like phones and computers were invented, muggles used the telegraph to send messages over long distances."
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Tom smiled at the Professor. "I'm doing good." He then listened to the Professor as he asked the first question and his face lit up and his hand shot in the air, like he was begging for the Professor to pick him. "Professor they use smoke, I've seen it done, it's how the ancient india's got all the sports score many moons ago, oh and they used it to protect themselves incase of invasion." Yeah that was good but scores were obviously more important.
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K smiled and nodded at the other boy, Heath if she remembered correctly from DADA and nodded her head towards the open chairs. Happy to see him already settling there. More people at the table were good! Especially since she assumed they were going to have to do some sort of group activity together.

And then the lesson was starting and she was focusing on Professor Schmoe. So they were talking about muggle forms of communication, huh? Hm, well so far everything she could think of was already being listed. All the types of communication by phone, radio, the muggle internet. She nodded in impressed acknowledgement towards Tom's and Heath's answers, they definitely came up with some valid and unique options. She thought for a moment longer and tilted her head, before raising her hand, "Piggybacking off of the telegraph, they also had a specific language of sounds called Morse where they used a series of noise, long sounds, short sounds, etc in order to convey their messages in hopes of secrecy."

At least, that had been her understanding of it anyways. She was definitely open to correction.
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It was probably weird to see a professor very casually playing with a yo-yo, and if it was any other professor, Lucas would've thought something was wrong. Or weird. Or both. But since it was coming from Schmoe, it had less of that confused effect on him. In fact, he might've expected something weirder from the man.

No offence, Schmoe.

For once, Lucas hardly paid attention to anything around him - mostly because he was too lost in his own thoughts. That is, until the sound of the door closing made him look up sharply. Homework, introductory chapter......... did he read it? Yes. Did he remember anything from it? ..... Well.....

They didn't have to say anything about it, right? Yes?

It was when Schmoe brought up a question about muggle communication that the Gryffindor felt a small sense of relief. Muggle communication that doesn't need talking face-to-face. This was something he knew a little bit more about than other topics in this class, just because of the type of person he was. Except, most of the answers that immediately came to his mind were answers that people had already mentioned. Phones, computers, sending letters through muggle postboxes and-

Oh! With a thought in mind, he tentatively raised his hand. "Some muggles also send postcards. I mean, I guess, it's not as popular now as it used to be and you can't write as much as you can in a letter," Pause. "But some people still send them! Especially if they're on holiday or..... yeah."
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SPOILER!!: Grantham
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Wait, there had been reading BEFORE class........? HO HO HO yes Bernie knew that, of course, she was the TA duh and as such had naturally done all of the reading and preparations and everything, yes. She tried her best to communicate this attitude of self-importance and omniscience with a serene expression on her face.

It didn't last long, however, as Bernie ALWAYS made an OOOH CHOOSE ME sound under her breath when she threw her hand in the air. She had SO MUCH ENERGY for school! Didn't ALL her professors appreciate this, always?!

"Muggles use Tweeter," she answered when she was called upon. "It's a social networking website, and you're supposed to type short thoughts to each other, called tweets, but my brother has it on his phone and he says he has to DM girls on there a lot." True story, though she wasn't sure what DMs were.

Never a surprise to see (or hear) Bernadette's hand shoot up first. So eager, this one. Grantham knew a thing or two more than the average student in this class, so he expected rather highly of her when answering questions. And she did not disappoint! He gave her a BIG and AWKWARD smile. "Very good," he bobbed his head. "Yes, Mr. Yoon, it is Twitter." He confirmed before looking around the room, unfortunately he had missed MF's whispered question about the DMs. ”Hold onto this, Ms. Grantham. We will circle back shortly." That's all he'd say... FOR NOW.


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Isla nodded politely toward Schmoe when he suggested a little workshop on how to use a yo-yo. She wasn't entirely sure she was even interested in yo-yos, but she wasn't going to tell him that. He was too good of a guy, that Schmoe.

Isla hadn't read the introductory chapter on the lesson, because she had previously been around so many muggles at primary school that a lot of this she already knew. She had just decided to take her chances and assume she'd already have some kind of background on whatever it was they were discussing today.

"They use social media, too," Isla said, raising her hand. "It's basically a place on the Internet where they can post a message and other people can reply to it." One example was Twitter, which Bernadette had called Tweeter. Wasn't Bernie a muggleborn? Hmm...

Social media platforms are a very popular means of muggle communication,” VERY GOOD he liked these answers so far. ”Twitter, which Ms. Grantham spoke of is just one example, but social media platforms come in many forms.” They would continue to speak about the topic later in the year.


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She rubbed her face to stay awake and smiled as more students joined the table she was sitting at. "Hi. I've been good, thanks!" she replied to both Yolanda and Noah and nodded politely at Missa and Minjae. Oh, Yoyo was switching tables? Jina chuckled, remembering how hard she tried to avoid sitting with older students when she was a third year. Anyway, class was about to begin and thankfully, she was now more awake. She had to admit that she often did not complete reading assignments for Muggle Studies, because she already knew most of the content and had to spend more time on her weaker subjects. She hoped Professor Schmoe wouldn't get mad because of that ... she tried her best to not let him find out. She raised her hand confidently to answer the first question about communication methods.

"Muggles can communicate and have discussions on websites called internet forums. Person A displays a message, Person B displays another message as a reply and so on."

”Internet forums are very popular!” He wiggled his finger at Jina. These forums can be considered social media platforms as well, but errr of a very different nature.” Finneas spent a lot of time on Reddit. It was home to his favorite internet forums. R/MuggleStudies amiright!?

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Avalon gave Aboli a friendly smile. "I'm Avalon!" She didn't expect the girl to know her name - they had only run into each other once or twice before. But she seemed nice, so the Ravenclaw was excited to get to know her more. She waved at Alexandre and Claudine as they sat down, too.[/textcut]
Thankfully, Avalon had skimmed the reading before class. She didn't have time to fully study and absorb all the information as she usually did, due to the massive amount of work she had to do for Herbology. But she had familiarized herself enough with the topic, and thankfully, she knew a little bit about Muggle communication from the kids in her London neighborhood.

A lot of Muggles used phones to talk, but that was a pretty obvious answer. Avalon had seen some people using a type of moving-portrait thing on their phones at King's Cross Station before she left for Hogwarts this term. "Some Muggles use this weird thing on their phone to talk to each other. I don't know what it's called, but they can see each other moving around and talking on a screen. Instead of just being able to hear each other, they can see each other, too." Ugh, she couldn't remember the name of it. Face Tune, maybe? But she did know that the Muggles looked absolutely bizarre while they were using it. Some of them wore these wiry-looking things in their ears, and they just talked to the screen of their phone, out loud, in public.

Weird was a very subjective way to describe something and Finneas hoped that with continued lessons in Muggle Studies, his students would stop referring to muggle whatsits as ‘weird’. ”YES video calls! They can also be done via ~computers~.”

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"It's actually called Twitter, Bernadette" he said matter of factly. But she was right about the rest of it. As for his own answer he continued "Video calls is a way of communication as well. Its a phone call but then instead of hearing just the voice you can see the other persons face. It's a nightmare when i'm trying to sneak out of the manor but my dad video calls me and i can't really shut the phone off because then he KNOWS i'm out ......" Merlin's Beard he was talking way too much wasn't he? "Video calls" the end.

Finneas blinked a few times and nodded his head. The point about sneaking out was not exactly on topic, but errrr… ”Yes. You have to be very careful when answering a video call. Heh. Heh. Make sure you’re not answering the phone while on the toilet.” Not that he was speaking from experience. Pft.

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But class was starting, and for ONCE IN HER LIFE she felt like she knew something advanced about a class here at Hogwarts! She beamed, even. She listened to Avalon's answer and nodded. "What Avalon is talking about is probably Facetime - or any other video call. It's the muggle version of two - way mirroring...and it works through the internet!" She would have expounded more, but he said ONE answer each, and she didn't want to do all the talking here.

”FaceTime is one of the several video calling platforms one can use, yes!” Excellent, excellent! ”Wonderful parallel, Ms. Song! Take a point!” Speaking of points, he was powerpointing in her direction. This was great stuff. They were doing errrrr fantastic!

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Polite as ever, when others joined her table, she smiled at them. Welcoming as ever. And when the professor finally started talking, she was relieved.

This wasn’t so bad. They were most probably studying a muggle communication device today? Yes?

Missa waited her turn before speaking up, “the muggle government uses the television whenever the masses have to be notified of an announcement or news” That would count, right?

Or was the professor looking for answers which just included one - on - one communication?

Finneas encouraged creative thinking and out of the box answers. Those were his FAVORITES. Speaking of which, Missa’s answer was right on the nose. ”Excellent point, Ms. Renaldi. Take a point! Adverts shown on the television can be another source of communication too. Communicating certain messages through propaganda and persuasion,” he nodded. Very good. Very good.

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This was meant to be his class. If there was nothing else, THIS should've been the class he excelled at and knew all the answers for. There was even a small part of the boy that hoped he would be the local expert but listening to his classmates, it became very clear they all already knew enough about "muggles" and he was running out of ideas.

The boy slumped some in his seat, not sure what else he could really bring up. Some had mentioned broad topics, instead of picking something from that topic. He'd be an idiot to go mentioning specifics now.

BUT.

He wanted to give an answer. "Um, the rumour mill, Sir. But...um....not like with magic and appearing and disappearing ink, just good 'ole fashion news that gets distorted the further from the source it gets by word of mouth and embellishing and few records to keep things straight. That's how mum finds out what what's happening in the neighbourhood. They have a book club, yeah, and they talk about everything but the book over tea."

Sometimes they let him sit and listen.

Finneas continued calling on the raised hands, very pleased with the answers so far. They were thinkinnnnnnng. ”Take a point for unconventional thinking, Mr. Lazarus!” Very, very good. He enjoyed the answers that drew from some magical parallel points. It helped put things into context.

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No time to discuss any of that though, because class was starting. Or whatever. Nem lounged back in their seat and tuned into whatever it was Schmoe was waffling on about, around the 'errr's and the protracted pauses.

Whadya know, they had an answer for him too, and so raised their hand. "Smoke signals."

... Did Yoon just casually drop into his answer that he lived in a 'manor'? Amazing. These rich kids really couldn't bear to let anyone go on thinking they weren't rolling in it, could they?

One could never anticipate the answer that would come from Nemesis Upstead. Finneas always had to brace himself in case. Best to expect the unexpected with this one, though that was not easily done. Otherwise the unexpected would become the expected and aNyWaY. ”Very good, outside of the box thinking,” he bobbed his head. Relieved. ”Very useful if you get stuck on a deserted island and need a rescue.” Or for other niche situations.

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Tom smiled at the Professor. "I'm doing good." He then listened to the Professor as he asked the first question and his face lit up and his hand shot in the air, like he was begging for the Professor to pick him. "Professor they use smoke, I've seen it done, it's how the ancient india's got all the sports score many moons ago, oh and they used it to protect themselves incase of invasion." Yeah that was good but scores were obviously more important.

”Yes, excellent elaboration on Nemesis’ answer of smoke signals.” That was good. They were working with each other to answer. Finneas LOVED that. It meant their heads were being put to good use.

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But before he could say more, class was starting. Well, Morgan DIDN'T read anything before class, but he didn't need to. He already knew a lot about muggle stuff. And yep, even about muggle communication. Everyone was talking about things people used ON their phones, but well, people just used them the regular way too. He raised his hand, remembering to do that before blurting out this time.

"They use phones to just talk too, without seeing each other or having to type things. Just talking. I've done that before because we have a phone at home." A couple actually, but he knew how to use them! And then he whispered to Bernie, "What's DM mean?" Because if her brother was talking to girls that way, maybe he was missing something.

Finneas was positively BEAMING. ”The telephone! An oldie but a goodie.” That’s for sure. ”Many have mobile phones too, which you can take on-the-go!” Finneas said this with MUCH excitement. Home phones were still a thing too though. As Mr. McCarthy had pointed out.

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The yo-yo show was over and it was time for class to begin. Unfortunately they would not be studying muggle toys today, as Naya had hoped. It seemed that the topic of the day would be muggle communication. This was something the Gryffindor was familiar with. A few answers to the first question had already been given. She raised her hand to add her two cents to the conversations.

Muggles can communicate by texting. They are able to type messages on their phones that are sent immediately to the recipient. You can have a back and forth conversation by texting. Naya missed having her phone when she was at school. It would be a good way to keep in touch with her family and friends......if that kind of thing would work in the magical castle.

More yo-yo shows to come though, that was a pROMISE. Finneas didn’t make many of those, he did not like being bound by obligation. AnYwAy. ”Yes, excellent! The TEXT MESSAGE.” He grinned. Was everyone hearing this stuff? Were they all taking NOTES? ”Easier than a phone call and great for sending all sorts of media.” Quick ’n easy. Text messages were a hassle to reply to though. Finneas always had a backlog.

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Noah grinned as he watched the Professor burst into laughter at his comment. Okay, he LIKED Schmoe. He got Noah's sense of humor for sure. With that the boy gave him a salute as he was seated. A few moments later, Minjae came and joined his table. Hello Huffelpuff friend. Minjae received a BIG smile from this Gryffindor.

Class began and the Professor was giving them a monologue about doing the pre-reading. He heard Minjae's whisper and nodded. "Uhh. Yeah... He recommended it in his posting of the class, didn't he?" offered Noah. The Gryffindor ALWAYS made sure he did his pre-reading but he could help his Hufflepuff mate out. Next the Professor was asking a series of questions. What are some of the different means that muggles use to communicate with one another? What do you know about them?

Noah raised his hand. "Another form of communication that some people use are emails to keep up with family members that are a long way away. It's also still used for business applications but also some chain e-mails," he shuddered at the thought of the last one he had seen. It had start something with: If you are reading this...

Those emails never ended well.

”Email is a timeless way to communicate!” The elaboration Noah provided was more than sufficient on its own, so Finneas didn’t feel the need to continue further. They wouldn’t be working with emails today anyway, so there wasn’t much of a need to take a deep dive right here, right now. GREAT stuff! Really GREAT.
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Luckily, Oda was still alone. She didn't care. She just stared at Schmoe from her seat and hated him silently. Hated all of them silently. Did they all know how insufferable they were? Did they realise how annoying they were with their chirpy voices, their waving hands, their stolen glances across the classroom? Odaline hated them all.

Hand up, she offered her answer. "Email."

No more, no less.

Odaline was unnerving. Finneas tried his best not to make eye contact whenever he saw her hand raised. He still called on her though… With many a precaution. And stayed his distance too, incase there were teeth involved. Hers were very sharp, he had seen them. ”….. Yes. Good.” He didn’t elaborate either. Wanted to move on as quickly as possible, y’know?

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Heath nodded in reply to the professor. He hardly expected the man to have a light-up yo-yo, but it would've been awesome if he did! Maybe he'd give him one… Never mind, class was starting! He looked toward the front as Schmoe started talking about, well, for lack of a better word, talking. Specifically the different methods people use to talk to each other. He supposed that explained the table setup and the papers. Were they going to use the papers for some sort of muggle communication with the other people at their tables?

Heath was getting ahead of himself. For now, he focused his attention on the question. As soon as he heard the question, his thoughts immediately went to phones. He used the phone all the time at home to talk to his muggle grandparents! Unfortunately, that was one of the first things somebody said, and there was no sense in repeating it. Same with every other idea he had… television, radio, video calls, social media… all mentioned before he had the chance to speak. Yeesh, he really needed to think faster!

So if all those things were already said, what was left? Heath wracked his brains, trying to recall some overlooked detail from the reading assignment, but it was a completely unrelated memory that gave him an idea. He remembered seeing telegraph machines appear in a lot of the historical dramas he watched. It was a big box-looking thing that muggles used to tap out messages to each other… or something. He wasn't exactly sure how it worked. Still, his hand went up, and he said, "It's not very widely used anymore, but before things like phones and computers were invented, muggles used the telegraph to send messages over long distances."

Finneas continued walking throughout the room, calling on raised hands. He stopped right in front of Heath. ”The TELEGRAPH,” he smiled down at the boy. Must’ve looked a little strange from the angle, but he was very excited about the answer. Not because it would be the subject of their lesson, but because he liked the answers that made them think about ~history~. ”The great grandmother of the modern day mobile phone! Fell out of wide usage in the early 21st century.” Was it actually referred to as the great grandmother? Probably not. Finneas thought it was a fitting description though. So. Er. AnYwAy.

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And then the lesson was starting and she was focusing on Professor Schmoe. So they were talking about muggle forms of communication, huh? Hm, well so far everything she could think of was already being listed. All the types of communication by phone, radio, the muggle internet. She nodded in impressed acknowledgement towards Tom's and Heath's answers, they definitely came up with some valid and unique options. She thought for a moment longer and tilted her head, before raising her hand, "Piggybacking off of the telegraph, they also had a specific language of sounds called Morse where they used a series of noise, long sounds, short sounds, etc in order to convey their messages in hopes of secrecy."

At least, that had been her understanding of it anyways. She was definitely open to correction.

Something else Finneas loved? When students piggybacked off one another. It showed they were listening. Expanding minds. Broadening horizons. All that good stuff. ”Yes! Morse code. Not very useful outside of telegraphing purposes, unfortunately.”

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Muggle communication? Interesting. Nettie had been talking about this very subject with her father over the summer. For some reason, his little girl going off to university was really throwing him, and they were going over all the ways for him to keep in touch with her - magical and muggle. She raised her hand, waiting patiently for her turn to answer. "Some people use messaging apps to send text messages to people. This is especially good for people in other countries, as these apps usually don't require international data packages. Or something," she explained. That was something she'd heard about. Super outdated, if she recalled.

Right-o, then. Moving forward. Ms. Gladin, FInneas called upon her next. ”Yes! Mobile phones are bound to contracts by privately owned companies. International messaging is not often included in these packages, so people find creative means of messaging others through the use of THE internet!” Very good point made by the Ravenclaw. Finneas was impressed.

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Before long, the fourth seat was occupied by Jillian of whom Carsyn greeted with a brief hello and smile before turning over to Ewan at his suggestion. Okay, that was literally brilliant, which was probably why he was a Ravenclaw. She was just about to get ready for her stealth move of blowing the parchment when the yo-yo show ended and they were starting. Muggle communications, yea.... she read it. The first few lines and then decided she was an EXCELLENT communicator and didn't need to read the whole thing. (Read: lies. she was a terrible communicator, but she was confident)

As far as what means muggles used to communicate with one another, well, this was quite obvious and Carsyn literally could NOT believe no one suggested this yet. Her hand shot into the air before speaking. "Muggles use language to communicate, which comes in varying forms, whether verbal, sign, emotional..." Wait, was emotional language a thing? Eh, she was going with. "And doesn't need to be english but could be one of the thousands of others like welsh or spanish or filipino..." Just to name a few.

…………………………….. Finneas blinked. More than usual. Which was already a lot.

He paused for a long while, trying to figure out whether the prefect was joking or if she was answering seriously. Uh. ”……………. Yes. Muggles use language to communicate…………..” But? So? Did? Wizards? I—

Finneas had ……… a lot of questions.


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Ewan just looked at the professor with a confused expression. World record? For what? Something to do with the yo-yo no doubt but…Shaking his head, the prefect just smiled and nodded at the Professor, finally deciding just to humour him rather than asking.

Having actually read the homework that the professor had set them, if somewhat only briefly, he knew exactly what the lesson was going to be on today and as such, he was ready with several answers. Surprisingly though, some of the younger kids gave some that he hadn’t thought of, or rather, wouldn’t have said in class. Leave it to the young Gryffindor. Although, she was sort of right, as were the rest of them. Phones. Yes. We get it.

”Muggles have used a load of different ways to communicate like Carsyn said” nodding towards his fellow prefect. ”Going through time though, humans have used art, poetry and music to communicate some of these things. I mean, cave men used to leave things on walls that are still there today. Then you’ve got pictograms and Ideograms…”. The list really went on and on.

Maybe Finneas ought to have clarified even more? He didn’t think it would be necessary seeing as this was a MUGGLE studies class, but err… There seemed to have been some confusion. ”Yes, wizards also use these means. Some similarities can be drawn here. Good point.” Was it a good point though? Finneas wasn’t entirely sure, but he did give Mr. Jones a smile either way. Wanted to be encouraging, y’know?

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Aboli and Avalon got a small but warm smile when they returned her greeting and then Claudine continued to watch the other students trickle in. Also, she watched Schmoe and the yo-yo. Well, mostly the yo-yo because she never really looked at anyone directly in the eye. She just stared at either their noses or mouths when she was supposed to be giving them her attention. It gave them the illusion that she was staring into their eyes.

Which was why she was now looking at Schmoe’s nose. It was an interesting shape, did he know? And yes, she had had a satisfying lunch. The reading… yes, Claudine had done it with much reluctance because that meant she had to give up some of her sketching time. Anyway… she raised her hand. “Codes. Some muggles use them… like spies and people up to no good.”

He continued calling upon those with raised hands. ”While coded messages are not innately restricted to muggle usage, some forms of coded language are. Ms. Amstern gave an excellent example of this with the Morse code developed by Samuel Morse.” He bobbed his head up and down in agreement. Very good, Ms. Blaze.

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Alexandre liked making new friends so this was exciting. He smiled at the younger girl that joined them. But then the other girl, Aboli as she introduced herself, was asking him a question. "Alexandre," he answered cheerfully. Sometimes people did call him Alex but he much preferred when they called him Alexandre. That was his name after all. His family called him Lex but that was okay because they were his family, you know?

Anyway, anYway. Class was starting so he stopped talking and made sure to pay attention to what Professor Schmoe was saying. He had definitely read the introductory chapter. Or... at least half of it. Approximately. AnyWay. They were talking about communication and not yoyos? He was a little bit disappointed after seeing the yoyo. But he was sure that he could probably find one later. But, no, that wasn't the point. Communication. How did muggles communicate. Alexandre raised his hand. "Uh, you could yell really loud. Except if someone is really far away they still couldn't hear you." Duh. Like if he yelled really loudly his sister still couldn't hear him. "But if they're kind of far but not too far there's this thing that you can do with cans and string and it's like a secret communication device." And you could pretend you were spies or something.

Uh……. ”Yes.” You could yell. ”Microphones and bullhorns may help alleviate the strain on vocal cords to help in this regard. And as for strings and cans? ”A good load of fun that is.” Nothing useful or official though.


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Ewan's suggestion to Carsyn made Jillian smile but then suddenly the class started. Maybe later, when they're in the middle of doing some activity. That'd be fun.

Call it what you want, Professor Schmoe... that thing is still a toy but there is no debate on it. She agrees that yoyo-ing can be a form of art and that if he had time she would love to learn how to do some yoyo tricks. That would be extra fun. She'd purchase one if Hogsmeade had those.

Muggle communication, this was something Jillian had to ponder on and it is taking her much longer to come up with a different answer because the ones that pop up in her head are being called out fast: e-mails, phone things, those twitter stuff whatever that is, even letters. But she did remember one more "Anything with a radio transceiver, professor" she raised her hand. "like a walkie talkie" some muggles still use it right?

”The walkie talkie!” Good, good. ”These are especially useful for communication with many people. But not so useful over a large distance.” Depended on the transmission, of course.

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These Professors at Hogwarts were a bunch of CLOWNS.

The good kind of clowns.

Flora, of COURSE, laughed at Professor Schmoe's joke about calling her STUDENT, but in true Gryffindor fashion, she had failed to read whatever it was she was supposed to read before the lesson. Did it stop her from raising her hand to give an answer, though? No. No it did not. Muggle communication? Yeah, she didn't need to read about THAT. She knew about that already!

"Rocks, Professor. Muggles use rocks to communicate." How? Well, she was going to tell them all how. "If you throw rocks at people's windows," Or just throw them at the people, really, "they will start yelling at you and yelling is a form of communication."

She knew that from experience.

………………………………………………. Uh.

”That is…… One way to do things.”

Yes. That’s how Finneas chose to reply. He didn’t want to discourage the Gryffindor. But also. Uh. Rocks? He had….. Concerns. Best that she didn’t say that bit about throwing them at people. It was good judgement on her part to keep that bit to herself. There were too many students who would actually take her up on the idea.

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Islay smiled over to Carsyn and Jillian as they joined the table as well. “hey,” she smiled before immediately quieting down when she heard Professor Schmoe’s voice. Islay had gotten lunch of course, but who was to say it was enough.

Right, the reading…had she read that? She couldn’t quite remember.

How did muggles communicate with each other? That was what they were talking about – ooooooh, okay she had this. Raising her hand Islay waited to be called on. “muggles in the past used long hand written letters,” she smiled happily, it was a small thing but it was something.

Right. Finneas fidgeted with his bowtie as he continued making his way around the room. ”Written letters! Not quite as popular in the age of technology, but still used as a nice way to show someone you are thinking of them.“ He nodded.


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Phoebe was delighted that Kale and Yoyo and Cece had joined her at her table, and she did a shoulder-to-shoulder crash into Kale as he took the seat next to her. If only this was an eight top or something bigger, she could cram all her favorite people into one spot.

"Oh!" Hand up, rear wiggling in her seat. "Muggles send each other owl mail, but without the owls. They put them in a box, and then... I guess a person delivers them instead of the owl. Slower. More papercuts. Same deal, though."

”Very good, Ms. James,” Finneas smiled. He LOVED the parallels so much, did she know? ”The POST. Used for letters, packages, and all sorts of things. Far more complex than our owl delivery system.” Finneas thought it to be more clever too. Also, he was afraid of owls. Beady eye creatures, they were. Like some of his students. Ngl.


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It was probably weird to see a professor very casually playing with a yo-yo, and if it was any other professor, Lucas would've thought something was wrong. Or weird. Or both. But since it was coming from Schmoe, it had less of that confused effect on him. In fact, he might've expected something weirder from the man.

No offence, Schmoe.

For once, Lucas hardly paid attention to anything around him - mostly because he was too lost in his own thoughts. That is, until the sound of the door closing made him look up sharply. Homework, introductory chapter......... did he read it? Yes. Did he remember anything from it? ..... Well.....

They didn't have to say anything about it, right? Yes?

It was when Schmoe brought up a question about muggle communication that the Gryffindor felt a small sense of relief. Muggle communication that doesn't need talking face-to-face. This was something he knew a little bit more about than other topics in this class, just because of the type of person he was. Except, most of the answers that immediately came to his mind were answers that people had already mentioned. Phones, computers, sending letters through muggle postboxes and-

Oh! With a thought in mind, he tentatively raised his hand. "Some muggles also send postcards. I mean, I guess, it's not as popular now as it used to be and you can't write as much as you can in a letter," Pause. "But some people still send them! Especially if they're on holiday or..... yeah."

No offense taken, Mr. Dakest.

”Yes!” He grinned, making his way over near Dakest. ”Typically with a fun photo on one side and room to write on the other. Some people collect them too.” Good, good. He always enjoyed hearing from the prefect. Lucas always tried his best. Finneas appreciated that

It sounded like everyone had a good grasp on the introductory chapter which was EXCELLENT. "Excellent answers, everyone," save for the one or two oddball ones that made very little sense. Like rocks. Rocks were not really a form of communication. Nor did he recommend that anyone use rocks to get people to yell. That is dangerous. Not recommended. Okay? Please do not throw rocks at people, guys!!!

AnYwAy, anyway, ANYWAY.

"Our focus for today has not yet been mentioned. It is a very FUN form of communication. Something exciting." Did anyone have any guesses? Bueller? Bueller? ........ Bueller? No? That's fine. He was going to tell them anyway. "That's right, folks! Today's lesson is all about MEMES as a form of communication!" Where were the cheers of EXCITEMENT. Finneas waited for those. Merry Chrysler, everyone!!!

Blink. Blink. Blink.

"Memes have made their way across ALL realms of the internet, they do their best living on social media platforms, but they have also managed to crawl their way into everyday language!" HOW FUN. "As we learned from the reading, a MEME is an element of culture or a system of behavior that may be passed from one individual to another. While it is errrr difficult to define, memes are a viral phenomenon that take the form of photos, text, gestures, etcetera, etcetera, ETCTERA."

Yes. Er. Anyway, ANYWAY, AnYwAY. This should be at least somewhat familiar to them because it was in the ReAdInG. "Tell me, based upon your own experience AND from what you managed to understand from reading the text," they had all read the chapters he had assigned, yes? "What do you know about MEMES? And why might muggles use memes as a method of communication?" Guesses were welcome too.




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Next questions are up: What do you know about MEMES? General or specific memes! And why might muggles use memes as a method of communication?
There are lots of ways to answer, feel free to get ~creative~ or have your character makeup some random guesses because those are GR8. Try to keep it at one answer / example each though to give everyone a fair shot to participate.

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Odaline's hand went up again and once again she found herself staring at the weasel-like face of her professor. Did he know he looked like an ugly woodland creature? Had anyone ever told him? She could. But that would mean speaking to him more than she needed to in the classroom and already being in the same space as him for more than a few minutes was a little nauseating. Almost as nauseating as sharing a bedroom with Aboli. Which was dreadful if anyone cared to know.

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Naturally, Phoebe's answer was wonderful. Yoyo had nodded right along.

"Yeah, what's a DM?" Yoyo had seen it mentioned in several photos in the reading but there had been little explanation beyond 'a method to privately message another' and while that seemed also accurate, the situations in which the saying had come up had painted other- very confusing connotations. Yoyo leaned closer to Morgan, Nem, and Bernie's table to better hear Bernie's answer.

Yoyo, being a pureblood from not one but two families of purebloods had very little interaction with the Muggle world aside from the glimpses her auntie Justine's movies afforded. What she had seen was danger-filled, enchanting, but meme-less.

"They're meant to be funny, Professor. To be... " What was the term the book had used? "Relatable. Hashtag Relatable." Yes, that was it. Yoyo looked very pleased with this answer.
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Alexandre thought his answer was pretty good, and Schmoe said it was fun so he was pretty proud of himself. And he was maybe a little bit hoping that they could do something like that for their activity because that would be fun. But no, apparently they weren't doing anything like that. They were doing memes. Sure, okay, fine. Alexandre knew a little about that. From the ~reading~ see? He raised his hand.

"Memes are like jokes so muggles use them when they want to be funny." Because being funny was good and it helped you make friends sometimes, or just be entertaining, or whyever else anyone wanted to be funny.
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Naya loved Professor Schmoe. He was hi-lar-i-ous. Whether it was intentional or not, she did not know. His class always managed to put a smile on her face though. In between chuckles, Naya took notes. But seriously, it was time for another question. The sixth year pondered what she knew about memes. That is, what she knew that the professor hadn’t already mentioned.

Naya was familiar with memes, but specific details about them? How to explain them, that was another story. She raised her hand, ready to take a whack at it. “Muggles can use memes to communicate information in a way that is not so serious. A lot of times, memes poke fun at a person or topic in a non threatening way. They’re not mean, just amusing.” At least they weren’t usually mean, but the subject of the meme may or may not find it funny.
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OHHH, it was pronounced "meme?" Merlin, she thought it was pronounced like "me-me." That was embarrassing. Avalon had honestly never heard of a meme until she read the chapter in the textbook. She had seen examples of them when the kids in her neighborhood used their social media accounts, but she never knew what they were actually called until she read about them. "Memes can come in a lot of different formats, like pictures, text, or a combination of the two," Avalon said after raising her hand. A boy in her neighborhood had showed her a moving photograph of a frog puppet thing that was looking at another frog puppet thing that was wearing a black cape, referring to it as 'Dark Kermit.' "They can even come in these little moving pictures that Muggles call G-I-Fs," Avalon added, spelling out each letter of the word. She couldn't remember how to pronounce it, but she had seen it written in all capital letters before. So she figured that meant you spelled it out. Right? "But the pictures just do the same thing over and over again on a loop." They were kind of like magical portraits, but not quite.

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Heyyyyy .... Schmoe had asked how muggles communicate and he didn't specify that it had to be UNIQUE to muggles. Language skills were a form of muggle communication and much more efficient then throwing rocks at people. You can stop blinking now.

Okay, they were moving on and none of the communication methods mentioned were ones that would be discussing today. Wait, people use ME-MEs to communicate? Me-mes? Memes? Was Schmoe saying this wrong?? Wasn't that short for something? She was pretty sure she remembered reading the root of the word me-me? Minime or something?

Except Schmoe wasn't asking about the etymology of the word and she doubted he seemed like the type who was interested in that sort of thing anyway. Mimes? Wait, what? Is that how they were pronounced? But then other people were talking about hashtag relatable and the lightness of the matter and suddenly she knew what to say.

Only not. Because then that Ravenclaw fourth year, Avalon was her name? Yes sounded about right, but anyway she started talking about GIFs and Carsyn was suddenly wondering what peanut butter had to do with moving pictures?? Was moving pictures muggles way of wanting to be magical? Because she'd heard of that - muggles who hope for getting their hogwarts letters, who try to make their lives a bit more magical than mundane.

"Life is challenging," Carsyn finally said, emphasizing on the challenging. "So its about having fun way to communicate in a lighthearted way to really show your identity" Because me was in it, so obviously it had to do with identity right?
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If Schmoe thought something was going to be fun and exciting, Nem was willing to be that they were about to head into territory which was the exact opposite of that. They barely had time to form the thought, however, before it was confirmed.

Memes. Wonderful.

Because Nem had skimmed the reading beforehand - which was more than enough to be prepared - they knew exactly what a meme was, unfortunately. None of the examples they had seen had particularly spoken to them, and none of it seemed all that interesting or funny, but they'd ended up forming a bunch of thoughts on the topic without really intending to.

At the question, up went Nem's hand again, and they kicked things off by tacking onto the answer of that one Gryffindor, Lindsay. "But sometimes they are used in mean, or plain offensive ways." Truth. But dress something up as a joke and you had a defence ready if you needed it. Pretty weak defence if you were really trying to go for someone, but whatever. "Like if someone was to make a brutal meme about you and that unfortunate incident with the ice cream, sir, even though you really didn't want them to." :) "Mostly, though, it's stupid sayings and stuff, or just single words. Like saying 'same' when a broom falls over or something." Peak hilarity, obviously. Wizards were into that stuff too, actually - it was obvious when you knew what to look for - but probably muggles started off that whole... thing. "I think a lot of their whole deal is repetition. Appearing over and over, sometimes altered to fit a situation, that's a meme. Sometimes they evolve and mix. Y'know, have little meme babies that look a bit like both of the meme parents, or maybe the handsome meme that lives next door." It was all in the textbook, but there was maybe some slight paraphrasing going on. "They keep appearing, is the point."
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Claudine nodded too, her gaze now shifted to the wall behind Schmoe. She never expected to be perfect in any Muggle Studies lesson- the subject was her worst. The other responses given were interesting as well. When it came to the internet and its sub methods, the girl was highly confused. What even? How did it all work? Yes, there had been times when she heard of them being mentioned but she’d never actually had experience using any.

Memes Cue even more confusion because her reading had given her a headache.

Claudine listened and tried to make sense of it all by making her notes as Schmoe spoke. There was only one thing she had gathered about memes: they were funny. But that was mentioned already by Alexandre. Frowning, she raised her hand again. “They’re used because muggles are bored of their existing communication methods?”

Claudine sent a judgy look at Odaline. Wasn’t she being too rude? Was she extra cranky because of womanly issues or something?
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Many things happened all at once, and Aboli was !!!!! She had gotten a POINT. WAHOOOO! She could have cheered, but she didn't, but she DID shoot Odaline the MEANEST NASTIEST OF ALL LOOKS as she called Professor Schmoe rude. "That was uncalled for!" she said in her roommates general direction. Could she be kicked out of class, now? Aboli was about to suggest as much.

Could she be kicked out of the dorm, too? She makes life MISERABLE there...

MEMES. Aboli crinkled her nose at first mention because she had never thought of them as a form of communication before. IF she really thought about it, though, she supposed they were. Nem seemed to be quite the expert on them, so Aboli merely raised her hand to add oneeeee thing. "I believe they came into existence around the early 2010s....ish. Right?" That was like...90 years of MEMES they had to deal with now. "Have you SEEN any of the first memes? So WEIRD." And CRINGEY to be quite honest. Memes had really evolved!

And, Aboli had so many thoughts. Because memes took a multi-layer of knowledge to even understand. Like the one meme about that dude's noodle hair? With just the word ITS GONNA BE - that was like...you HAD to really know the history of all memes to get THAT one. And memes could convey SO MUCH in just one look! Memes were drastically underestimated as a form of intelligent and critical dialogue!

Aboli merely THOUGHT all this. She didn't want to nerd out too much on....memes.
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"I love to YoYo ... can I show how to do the elevator?" Blake had actually placed his hand out in to take the yoyo...a rookie mistake you NEVER touch another man's yoyo ... EVER ... But then class had started ... so moot point anyway

"Well my mom has a cell phone that she texts and talks on for muggle communications, honestly, I think it's so much easier than sending lettings via snail owl/mail" Blake knew that their magical often messed with or altered human forms of communication so he knew why they didn't use cell phones, but texting was so much easier.

"Memes ... bahahahahaha" Blake burst out laughing, he had seen so many of them. "They are most often used for humor, or to make fun of something or someone. So many good ones out there. Have you seen the one about the queen and ..." Blake stopped .. maybe wasn't the best time for such a meme .... and in front of teachers what with the inappropriate language... "Umm, well never mind."
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Wait... Noah leaned over to Minjae. "[b]Did the Prof. really just say that we are discussing MEMES?[/b]" he whispered, very shooketh at that question or having a class centered around MEMES. He raised his hands. "Memes are a way to add humour or lighten up a conversation... Kinda like puns in their own special way. For instance, there are a couple that are informational... Such as an Albert Einsten one.. Where it asks why he divided sine by tangent? just cos... as in cosine... Get it?"
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Phoebe smiled hugely at Yoyo and her clever answer. Smartest girls in the world, they were. She appreciated that the professor thought her own answer was grrrrreat, although he was generally happy that everyone in the room was even trying.

And there he went referencing the reading. SIGH.

"I think it's like inside jokes, sir," Phoebe wiggled her fingers and half raised her hand. "Or at least, why we like them. Something is funny the first time, and then we start talking about it almost like in code words with each other and we're laughing because it was funny the first time, and then it becomes funny by association. And it sounds like these memes are the same way. They're funny because they're a short hand way of remembering a shared joke."
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Cecelia liked the walkie talkie communication answer the BEST, did Professor S know? Mostly she liked the name and how it could paint a picture in your mind RIGHT away. Those were the best kinds of names for things as far as she was concerned and she gave a thumbs up in agreement for this particular answer.

Meme. Meme was't one of those words. The create a picture in your mind type words, that is. Which...was actually kind of funny because memes COULD be actual pictures created by someone who came UP with something in their mind, but yeah, not for Cece. As for what she KNEW about memes, it wasn't a lot. "I was going to say what Nem said about the evolving thing. Like, there could be memes that use the same picture but have all kinds of different words paired with it over time to be used in different situations as they came about." Did that make any sense? She looked hopeful because she WANTED it to.

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