This is the permanent link for a digression that was posted on January 20th, 2009 and tagged language, semantic satiation, semantics, word. If you would like to see all posts filed in the Digressions category, click here.
You know when you say a word over and over and you think to yourself, “That is a weird word”? Yeah, turns out there’s a name for that. It’s called semantic satiation.
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