...and that word refuses to make sense to you for a period?
(For anybody reading this and going "Huh?" -- it is an observed phenomenon. Here:
phenomenon
phenomenon
phenomenon
phenomenon
phenomenon
phenomenon
Starts to look a little weird, no?)
2007-03-18 22:53:39 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
The best I can come up with is 'misdirection'. Provided the following is laid out correctly (and I probably cannot achieve that in Yahoo Answers) many people will miss the duplicated word:
PARIS
* IN *
THE THE
SPRING
Verbal confusion is also the basis of the tongue twister about a pheasant plucker, and the name of a foreign dignatory Owatana Syam.
2007-03-19 00:41:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's called "Jamais Vu," as I'm sure you would know if your brain were not fatigued.
See the note on the experiment by Chris Moulin, of Leeds University. Abstracting from his hypothesis, if you keep it up, you'll catch schizophrenia.
2007-03-19 11:34:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called a BRAIN FART, and you just gave it to yourself...
2007-03-19 09:53:16 · answer #3 · answered by Zeera 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋