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@ all french speakers

do you ever get confused whenever you see the word meme since its so close to méme??? or have you ever?? genuinely curious

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@gabo No, because usage of "meme" and "même" is very different, so I usually have enough context not to confuse them. With other words, it may happens, but not with meme / même :)

@gabo in French the accent (é) on the letter e is very important, so it didn't bother me a lot. we are used to word close to an other with just an accent as a difference

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french speakers dont really use mème so there's no confusion

@gabo not exactly! (je suis français) and in fact we do not pronounce it the same way. the first is "un meme" the other "une mémé"... #itrytobehelpfull

@gabo "meme" is very rarely used and it does not sound like même at all ;)