• jaybone@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I used to know how to spell words, and what they meant. Then I spent too much time on the internet.

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      2 hours 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

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation is the phenomenon