Well, that's because cocaine is peculiar to the coca plant, and "cocaine" is just the name of that substance itself, and novacaine and the rest are actually based on cocaine, so that's basically Latin at work.
And a "meme" was originally just meant to denote ANY idea that can spread (like a gene, after which the concept was modeled and named). Dawkins referred to ideologies as "memeplexes", or collections of (presumably related) memes, but alas, I know damn well that most fumducks that (mis)use the word never read the book that mentions them in the first place.
For example, the Ten Commandments would be a memeplex, with each Commandment being a meme (It's wrong to kill, it's wrong to commit adultery, etc.)
Well, that's because cocaine is peculiar to the coca plant, and "cocaine" is just the name of that substance itself, and novacaine and the rest are actually based on cocaine, so that's basically Latin at work.
And a "meme" was originally just meant to denote ANY idea that can spread (like a gene, after which the concept was modeled and named). Dawkins referred to ideologies as "memeplexes", or collections of (presumably related) memes, but alas, I know damn well that most fumducks that (mis)use the word never read the book that mentions them in the first place.
For example, the Ten Commandments would be a memeplex, with each Commandment being a meme (It's wrong to kill, it's wrong to commit adultery, etc.)