The the the the induction of jamais vu: word alienation and semantic satiation
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#2Genuinely interesting, thank you poster. I’ve encountered the sensation periodically since childhood and never had a word for it.
Jamais vu is a phenomenon operationalised as the opposite of déjà vu, i.e. finding subjectively unfamiliar something that we know to be familiar. We sought to document that the subjective experience of jamais vu can be produced in word alienation tasks, hypothesising that déjà vu and jamais vu are similar experiential memory phenomena.
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#3When I worked in marketing software I experienced this often with the term "referral". To this day I still feel kindof weird when I see the term.
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#4We need the Oscars "In Memoriam" every year, but it's for words we lost to semantic satiation.
Off the top of my head:
iconic
epic
brilliant
"blazingly fast"
literally
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#5I think in language learning it’s important not to over-review content for this very reason.
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#6We need the Oscars "In Memoriam" every year, but it's for words we lost to semantic satiation. Off the top of my head: iconic epic brilliant "blazingly fast" literally
This is about repeating the word many times in isolation of other words, not using an exaggeration for lesser things so the meaning drifts. I think everyone's familiar with it by trying to say the same word over and over again, it quickly becomes weird and seems to lose its meaning or even become hard to say.
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#9There’s two phenomena that come to mind: 1) when I say the same word over and over and within a minute the word sounds and feels weird and wrong. 2) everyone overuses and exaggerates a word so much that it loses its power and meaning.
Are these the same thing?
Re: The the the the induction of jamais vu: word alienation and semantic satiation
#10We need the Oscars "In Memoriam" every year, but it's for words we lost to semantic satiation. Off the top of my head: iconic epic brilliant "blazingly fast" literally
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