Short Stuff: Semantic Satiation
Stuff You Should Know
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🗓️ 22 March 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
You know when you read a word over and over it starts to lose its meaning? There’s a term for that and why it happens is fascinating.
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| 0:29.0 | you get your podcasts. |
| 0:31.0 | Hey, and welcome to this short stuff. |
| 0:37.6 | I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry sitting in for Dave and this is short stuff. |
| 0:42.7 | Short stuff. |
| 0:43.7 | That's right. |
| 0:45.1 | All about something that, and big thanks to MentalFlaws.co and how emotions are made, but the |
| 0:50.2 | big thing that happens to a lot of people is when, and for me, it happens when I say a |
| 0:55.9 | word out loud too many times. |
| 0:58.3 | I've never had the experience of writing a word too many times. |
| 1:01.6 | Oh, really? |
| 1:02.8 | No, I guess because I just don't sit around and write the same word over and over, but it's |
| 1:09.5 | the idea that if you say something or write something over and over, that word starts to |
| 1:14.2 | sound weird or look weird, then it starts to completely kind of fall apart the more you |
| 1:19.5 | do it to the point where you're like, what even is driveway? |
| 1:24.8 | Right. |
| 1:25.8 | And it becomes just a string of sounds or if you're just seeing it visually a string of |
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