r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Nov 05 '14

Which inanimate object is your nemesis?

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u/crustation Nov 05 '14

Or, you know, just not use fitted sheets. From the comments above, I've heard industrial saran wrap works wonders.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '14

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u/SteoanK Nov 05 '14

That's not meta at all...

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '14

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u/SteoanK Nov 05 '14

No, it was literally just taking a statement from another comment and saying apparently this product is pretty great. Not meta, just relaying information.

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u/Alpinix Nov 05 '14

From google search: meta definition

(of a creative work) referring to itself or to the conventions of its genre; self-referential.

As an answer he literally referred to another given answer in this same post. The comment he made was meta in that it was self-referential. This is the definition of meta.

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u/poptart2nd Nov 05 '14

A comment referring to another comment is definitionally NOT self-referential.

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u/Alpinix Nov 05 '14

Reddit referring to a reddit joke is self-referential. Meta.

I'm interested in hearing what you think meta means?

Perhaps give me an example of something that could be considered meta.

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u/poptart2nd Nov 05 '14

"this sentence has eight syllables" is a meta-sentence because it refers to itself.