Have you ever looked at a word, or said a word so many times, that it looks or sounds wrong or even foreign?

Answer 1

Sometimes I look at 'said' or 'paid' and get really weirded out by them!

If you believe that words have no tangible/meaningful relation to their meaning (we call a dog "dog" just because...not because there is something about the letters d-o-g that actually MEAN dog) then this makes perfect sense.

Try this....think about milk. What do you think? White, cold, creamy? Something like that. Now time yourself and say 'milk' over and over again for 45 seconds. Now what do you think about? You probably think about the actual sounds and how bizarre they really are. Just an example (which I stole from relational frame theory work)

Answer 2

Always. It's a common phenomenon, and yet not so common that I'm aware of a word that describes it (like deja vu...although in this case the feeling is not already seen, but never seen...and so, if there were a term, I suppose it should be "jamais vu"). I think you, or we, just invented a new psychological term, jamais vu, the feeling after repeating a word over and over again, that it is strange, foreign, and that you've never seen it before. Not bad.

Answer 3

Believe it or not mickey, I'm pretty sure I've heard the term "jamais vu" before. I think I've read it in a book, although maybe I'm just having deja vu, haha. But it did pertain to what you're describing, I recall.

As far as the question, yeah I figured out that I could do that when I was younger.

Answer 4

constructive. i think of of that I shall on no account see A poem marvelous as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest against the earth's candy flowing breast; A tree that seems at God all day, And lifts her leafy palms to choose; A tree that ought to in summer season time located on A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who in element lives with rain. Poems are made through way of fools like me, yet in easy words God could make a tree. Written through way of Joyce Kilmer.

Answer 5

LOL Just the other day I was watching an old rerun of "King of Queens," and Doug (Kevin James) was saying and doing that exact thing with the word "pudding." It was so effin funny!!

Any question that makes me laugh gets a star! :)

Answer 6

All the time. Especially while writing papers and such. It makes me rethink my spelling all the time for stupid simple words. I hate that.

Answer 7

yeah! when i write an essay a lot and too long!