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02-01-2006, 10:53 AM
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Word weirdness
Do you ever do a mental double-take looking at a common, everyday word?
It happens to me periodically. The spelling looks weird or it just doesn't seem to click anymore as an actual word. The best example I can recall had to do with the word "was." I kept looking at it and had serious trouble locking onto it - i.e., is that really a word?!? I just had another instance of it with the word "white." I looked at the spelling - particularly the "h" - and it boggled my mind for awhile. I'm better now. Anyone else experience this phenomena?
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02-01-2006, 11:01 AM
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Others haved mentioned this phenomenom to me, so we're not the only ones. I bet a grad student has written a boring thesis on it, too.
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02-01-2006, 11:04 AM
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it must have something to do with time travel...i can feel it.
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02-01-2006, 11:05 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Wentzville, MO
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"what"
Gets me from time to time.
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02-01-2006, 11:07 AM
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This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
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Every so often, yes. It can happen with either the spelling while looking at it, or even hearing the same word over and over, it begins to lose its meaning and just sound like a random word.
Most of the time, of course, this just happens in everyday life and while you are aware of it, no one else is (unless you mention it). The one time this really caught me in a bad position, though, was in high school. I went to a concert with a group of friends, and the parents of the guy who was taking us asked us to write our parents' names and phone numbers for them in case anything happened, and I completely blanked on my dad's name, John. I could NOT, for the life of me, figure out if the 'h' came before or after the 'o'. Completely random, completely bizarre. I stalled for like 2 minutes until I came to my senses.
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M's pitcher Miguel Batista: "Now, I feel like I've had everything. I've talked pitching with Sandy Koufax, had Kenny G play for me. Maybe if I could have an interview with God, then I'd be served. I'd be complete." Last edited by Ksyrup : 02-01-2006 at 11:07 AM. |
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02-01-2006, 11:07 AM
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"which" does that to me from time to time...
FM
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02-01-2006, 11:09 AM
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oh and quite often I get mixed up between the french and the english spelling of some words that are very similar, yet a tiny bit different. But I know this may not apply to you all
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02-01-2006, 11:10 AM
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This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
Join Date: Nov 2000
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Me too. Menage a trois and threesome. Both are equally impossible for me to spell. Or attain.
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M's pitcher Miguel Batista: "Now, I feel like I've had everything. I've talked pitching with Sandy Koufax, had Kenny G play for me. Maybe if I could have an interview with God, then I'd be served. I'd be complete." |
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02-01-2006, 11:11 AM
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I get this all the time with all kinds of words. I hate when it happens, because it seriously bothers me for hours...
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02-01-2006, 11:19 AM
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This has happened to me as well. I also have had (rare) moments when I am trying to think of a fairly common word and have no clue as to what it is.
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02-01-2006, 12:14 PM
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"Pencil" drove me mad for several hours once...
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02-01-2006, 12:18 PM
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but then the doctor pulled it out and you began to relax?
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02-01-2006, 12:51 PM
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word.
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02-01-2006, 12:53 PM
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AnalBumCover.
The words just don't look right for some reason. 
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02-01-2006, 01:09 PM
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Rider Of Rohan
Join Date: Jul 2001
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Wow, an ABC sighting!
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02-01-2006, 03:27 PM
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Its funny you brought this up. Just yesterday I had the same problem with "welcome". I knew it was spelled right but it looked very weird. The letters just didn't look right.
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02-01-2006, 03:33 PM
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Pro Rookie
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I've had this happen as well - it is almost like an anti-deja-vu.
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02-01-2006, 03:34 PM
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It's a glich in the Matrix.
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02-01-2006, 03:39 PM
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this one is easy -- it's the word "the" that starts looking wonky to me when I'm writing for long periods of time.
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02-01-2006, 04:10 PM
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02-01-2006, 04:10 PM
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It's: An alBum Cover
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02-01-2006, 07:52 PM
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Unregistered
Join Date: May 2004
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Wow, talk about word weirdness... I've been reading it wrong all along! |
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02-01-2006, 08:09 PM
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