meta

a term, especially in art, used to characterize something that is characteristically self-referential.

“so i just saw this film about these people making a movie, and the movie they were making was about the film industry…”
“dude, that’s so meta. stop before my brain explodes.”
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a term, especially in art, used to characterize something that is characteristically self-referential.

“so i just saw this film about these people making a movie, and the movie they were making was about the film industry…”
“dude, that’s so meta. stop before my brain explodes.”

1. meta 581 up, 58 down
a term, especially in art, used to characterize something that is characteristically self-referential.

“so i just saw this film about these people making a movie, and the movie they were making was about the film industry…”
“dude, that’s so meta. stop before my brain explodes.”

when you create new layers of abstraction between the thing or event, you are becoming more meta.

for example: a footnote that is needed to explain another footnote is meta.

the problem with being meta is that if you add sufficient layers of abstraction or complexity between the original event and the convenient abstractions you create to clarify or explain it, you eventually lose all connection to the original. generally, you need no more than two or three levels in writing.

too much meta in your writing leads to meta fog.

in writing, this means your writing sucks.
man, i need notes to explain the notes to my notes for my thesis!” – “that’s very meta. perhaps you should rewrite it?
meta-htmltm is a programming language specifically designed for working within the world wide web environment. although it is a genuine programming language, suitable for large-scale symbolic manipulation, it provides the most commonly wanted web functionality as built-in primitives, so you don’t have to write them.
check out the white-paper manifesto (circa 1996)
for example, in linguistics a grammar is considered as being expressed in a metalanguage, or a sort of language for describing another language (and not itself).
feel that strange feeling in your leg? yeah thats the meta ripping it off of you.
feel that strange feeling in your leg? yeah thats the meta ripping it off of you
a super search engine that combines the results from all search engines into one big results page.
meta search engines are teh s3x.
name for a guy of thai decent, typically sarcastic, cynical and shallow but for some reason extremely charming. can be extremely romantic and caring when he wants to be, places a lot of importance on physical appearance of his mate. has serious self-esteem and trust issues, is incapable of making deep connections with people and is extremely picky when it comes to dating(or maybe he’s just a pansy and not over his ex girlfriend who treated him like cr-p and was the only girl he ever slept with). a heavy drinker, loves to party and people love to party with him.
are you and meta dating? no he just lead me on and never called me back.

meta was so drunk last night he threw up at the table at ihop

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