how do you use the word “meta”. I hear it all the time and no one that I ask knows what it means.

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how do you use the word “meta”. I hear it all the time and no one that I ask knows what it means.

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The easiest way I could explain in would be that meta basically means “transcending” (as far as I know) and people typically use it to mean something referencing itself.

An example of a meta joke would be leaving a note on the tippy top of the Empire State Building that says “this is really high, lmao”

A book you read about reading books is meta

Jokes about jokes are meta

So on and so forth