Comment on You never know
jaybone@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I used to know how to spell words, and what they meant. Then I spent too much time on the internet.
Comment on You never know
jaybone@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I used to know how to spell words, and what they meant. Then I spent too much time on the internet.
tpyo@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Had to once double check “the” because I’d been talking to friends about how words eventually lose meaning they’re overused. The example was to just say it repeatedly while thinking of the word in your head, and eventually the concept of the word the loses any tangible meaning
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation is the phenomenon