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.
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?
by Charles Hoffmann August 29, 2010
by Ganderschplaf the Gray November 23, 2015
When in any form of art; whether it be a story, video game, picture, movie, etc.; the story is explaining itself.
Examples of meta media: The Stanley Parable (game), Deadpool (movie), Game Dev Tycoon (game), and "Drawing Hands" by MC Escher (painting).
by xDJ Rockstar April 06, 2016
In the gaming world, meta is what the entire community does within one week of the game's release or latest patch, ignoring everything else the game or the game developer has to offer.
by PSloth December 18, 2014
In the gaming world. The meta is what is in RIGHT NOW. What are the best strategies, plays, options.. Things of that nature. Often referred to as "Meta-Game".
Example 1. "Woah Dude! That Magic the Gathering deck is crazy!"
"Yes... It is the meta."
Example 2. "Dude! The your build is crazy!" (moba players)
"Yes...... It is in deed.. The meta."
"Yes... It is the meta."
Example 2. "Dude! The your build is crazy!" (moba players)
"Yes...... It is in deed.. The meta."
by MC Nudge December 31, 2014
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)
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).
by bluesparty February 04, 2013
by nlolhere June 25, 2020