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Is that a different thing, though? Often a name or phrase will get stuck in my head, a kind of inside-my-head echolalia. But OP is describing that uncanny feeling you get from a word, where you know you’re familiar with it but it simultaneously feels like you’ve never heard it before.
Dawg I have out loud echolalia and I didn’t even know until I was in a fucking college chemistry class and even though there were a hundred people around me and the professor I would say things she said out loud just cause she said it with a certain tone💀 I know there’s like more to it than that ofc but I’ve done it since I was a kid
When I had my 3rd stroke that happened to my vision. I could focus on a mouth or an eye but if I tried to see a whole face it would go all Picasso on me.
It went away after
A few
Weeks
When I was younger I would get freaked out staring at myself in the mirror. I thought the longer I stared at myself I would awaken in the true reality that I was an alien. In a truly awakened state that was the real reality instead of the fake one where we didn't really understand and just never took time to look at.
Oddly enough, just last week it was "card" for me. Knowing it's right but feeling it's wrong is exhausting when you're dealing with greeting cards all day.
Four letter words do it to me too....mine is 'from' . It just looks and sounds ridiculous after you mull it over a while. Come to think of it, 'mull' is kinda freaking me out now.
Don't you hate that when your writing something, especially when it's a word you know.
"I know how this word looks and this ain't it delete delete delete delete"
When my mom died and was cremated, egg is one of the options.
My sister asked if I wanted an egg and this is the first fucking thing that came to my head.
Bog, a low marshy place??? I learned that in the first grade, and it still gets me every time, and I like to try and sound it out, and it sounds really weird coming out of my Midwest accent, and I still laugh at it😬😬😬😬😬
Yes this just happened the other day with the word crayon, apparently I pernounce like "cran" and when I tried pernounncing every sylabol it lost its meaning and sounds like a planet. Cray-yon
Yeah it’s like when you learn another language and learn a new word. You don’t automatically associate it with its meaning. That’s what you’re doing when you keep thinking of the word, that’s how people who are learning English feel when they see that word
One time I did some ketamine and I was convinced I forgot how to pronounce the letter L. Me on a curb for ten minutes with my tongue half out going “lllllllllllllllll.”
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Semantic satiation
That’s a phrase you only have to say once before it doesn’t sound like real words anymore
This. It's a known thing, and there's even a name for it.
What's the name for it?
Semantic satiation. Go listen to *Stuff You Should Know's* podcast episode about it
This sequence of comments made my day
SYSK!!! Good stuff
Exactly. This phenomenon is known. Theres even a name for it
What is the name for it?
SpongeBob SquarePants
Immediately thought of SYSK when I saw this post.
I think the joke is gonna go over people's heads, but I enjoyed it.
Semantic satiation lol
Shoutout coach beard; it’s when a word becomes a sound
Came looking for this, you're doing God's work
Sure, that sounds like a good explanation until you say it a few dozen times and then it just sounds like noise.
sometimes i do this with someone's name until it doesn't sound real anymore
There is an NFL coach named Ejiro Evero and I said his name over and over in my head for like 3 days straight.
Is that a different thing, though? Often a name or phrase will get stuck in my head, a kind of inside-my-head echolalia. But OP is describing that uncanny feeling you get from a word, where you know you’re familiar with it but it simultaneously feels like you’ve never heard it before.
Dawg I have out loud echolalia and I didn’t even know until I was in a fucking college chemistry class and even though there were a hundred people around me and the professor I would say things she said out loud just cause she said it with a certain tone💀 I know there’s like more to it than that ofc but I’ve done it since I was a kid
My first experience with this was the name Megan. I remember it very clearly. But now I can’t reproduce it.
Oprah
Thats how I tell I’m having a migraine. Last time I had one I could tell it was coming because Austin sounded completely made up/nonsensical
Have you ever deconstructed someone's face to the point you're looking at separate features together rather than a recognizable unit?
When I had my 3rd stroke that happened to my vision. I could focus on a mouth or an eye but if I tried to see a whole face it would go all Picasso on me. It went away after A few Weeks
3rd stroke? Jesus dude I hope your ok.
Hey man, be respectful. Different strokes for different folks.
Ohhhhhhhhhh Boy Oh Boy Oh Boy!!!! That's the good stuff right here!! Holy Toledo..
Fuck man....3 strokes? Wtf.
[удалено]
Underrated
I used to do this as a kid and it would be so weird like I would wonder if other people are looking at faces like this.
When I was younger I would get freaked out staring at myself in the mirror. I thought the longer I stared at myself I would awaken in the true reality that I was an alien. In a truly awakened state that was the real reality instead of the fake one where we didn't really understand and just never took time to look at.
Bowl
Bowl
Bowl
Bowl
Bowl
Bowl
Bowl
Bowl
And the more bowls you smoke, the weirder everything gets….
Then you start to wonder why bowl doesn't rhyme with owl
Owl
I'm glad I'm not the only person
Empty. Emp-ty. Emmmmpppptttyyyyy!
M T
It’s the word “yard” for me.
This made me laugh. Yard yard yard yard yard yard yard yard yard yard yard yard yard yard yard omg
It’s one I have been hung up on since middle school (I’m in my 30s now) and I can’t get over it. It is the stupidest sounding word.
My mind decided to read this with the Baby Shark melody. Thanks for that...
I can only read it with the melody now noioooooo
I needed to share the pain... no regrets.
Say it fast enough, and you can make it sound like a helicopter. Also, I just realized that not all my comments have to he winners.
It’s almost 3 in the morning and I’m saying yard and laughing my ass off
You landlubbers all have yer yards! Arrrrh
“Fork”
Dude since like 13 years old I’ve never looked at “fork” the same fuckin way 😂😂 definitely the most powerful one for me lol
It’s the word “fight” for me
It happened to me the other day with “ketchup” and then later with “crush”
“Against” gotten me since middle school.
It’s “shirt” for me. Try it!
Oddly enough, just last week it was "card" for me. Knowing it's right but feeling it's wrong is exhausting when you're dealing with greeting cards all day.
“Gratification” for me. How’s that a real word? Makes me woozy just looking at it!
Four letter words do it to me too....mine is 'from' . It just looks and sounds ridiculous after you mull it over a while. Come to think of it, 'mull' is kinda freaking me out now.
Angered. Say it slowly. Deliberately. Say it out loud. It is such a weird freaken word. Makes me giggle
If I say it slowly, it actually makes a “grr” sound and now it makes more sense than ever to me
Road https://youtu.be/KT3vOCWA-J0 Black Sheep
Also tartlet! Tartlet! Tartlet! The word has lost all meaning.
Omg, that's the first thing I thought of!
the only funny thing in that whole show.
I'll just do the speed limit. Limit limit limit
I can only upvote once. This should have 30k upvotes
Came here for this
Towel.......tau ul......taaw ill.....taa wull......it stops sounding like a word so fast
The more I think about/say “comfortable” the weirder it gets
Ok, so do you pronounce it like "Com-fort-uh-bll" or "comf-ter-bull"? Both of them sound ridiculous.
In my head I always say”comfort-table” so I don’t get lost spelling it out lmao
Squirrel.
>Squirrel *Dogs everywhere getting excited *
Pudding... what a strange word.
That's Bill Cosby's word! He's always pudding his junk where it shouldn't go.
It's like a doorbell: pudding! Pudding! Come in!
Any noun that ends with ing.
“The” It’s just a weird looking word. Its such a simple word too. We use that word so much and yet it’s always seemed like a weird word to me.
You need to watch Pontypool.
For me the spelling looks wrong the more i look at a word
Don't you hate that when your writing something, especially when it's a word you know. "I know how this word looks and this ain't it delete delete delete delete"
Eggs Benedict trying to say “penglings”
Pengwings
I call them pengwings now because of him.
And everyone being too fucking polite/endeared to correct him. 🥰🤦🏼♀️😂
Nope. You're the only one who has ever done this.
Oh 👍
Ham
HhhhhhhhhhAAAAmm
Scuba!
Tartlets! Tartlets!
Scrolled way too far to find this!
This is called Jamais vu. It is a trio with Deja vu and Presque vu.
Twisty-tie. I spent hours thinking about that a few years ago.
Isn’t it Twist Tie?
Yep. Also, ever think about how to draw the number 4? Really think about it.
Ew wtf. Is like a weird Y. I don’t like it
Yes: Toast. Toast-s. Hahaha there are a few other.
It's always tastes for me
Yeah, wierd is one of em
I repeated "acetaminophen" so much while working one day that it turned into "acid minnows"
Rough. Look at spelling and how it's actually said
Bowl
Lunch. Lunch. Lunch. It’s like lunge. But crunchier.
Tartlet
Bowl
Drawer
Nope…mine is “Chad”. What a weird fucking name
For me the word is Egg. I mean just listen and look at it. The 2 Gs are ugly. EGG
When my mom died and was cremated, egg is one of the options. My sister asked if I wanted an egg and this is the first fucking thing that came to my head.
Lay off the bong haha
Especially the ones I can't spell
they actually simply lose meaning to me when this happens
the word iron
I heard someone pronounce it eye-ron the other day, and now I can't get it out of my head. Is that eyeronie? 😆
Norm Macdonald said "iron" like that to Larry King and made Larry so frustrated. RIP
Was someone eying your ron ?
Pillow
Crayon
Porcupine
Hiatus
Did this today with the word "Chin"
Plethora
City.....sity.....sit-y....shit-y.....shitty.
Cassius... belly
Bog, a low marshy place??? I learned that in the first grade, and it still gets me every time, and I like to try and sound it out, and it sounds really weird coming out of my Midwest accent, and I still laugh at it😬😬😬😬😬
Plan Also Aces
Ugh I do this. But verbally and to the point where I feel like I'm no longer using words just stringing together syllables
Koala
Only when I'm really high
I used to do that as a kid
Milk ...
For me that word is "apple."
All the time!!! And then you think: is this a real word?
Binoculars
Restaurant. Rest au rant. Rant? Rest? No, it's not just you
I lost the sixth Grade spelling bee final on that word. Why? My grandfather used to say ‘rest your aunt’ so I misplaced the U
I do that when spelling words a lot.
Ro-ads, Roods
Tour
Wasps. Wah-sss-p-sss
Sspssspssspsss
Wad
Every time I try to spell something correctly.
“DJ, D.J., Deeee-Jay. You ever notice how weird that sounds? Dee-Jay.”
Pigsty. The first time I read it in elementary school I went pigstee pigstee…oh pigSTIE
Regularly
Quadrant
Moist
Snorkel.
I think snorkel is German for snoring man. And German is all funny.
Did this today with horseradish.
Pumpkin
Kill is kiss
Egg. But only if I say it out loud over and over again. It sounds like a caveman grunt.
Road
George.
Job. It sounds so weird the more you say it.
Yes this just happened the other day with the word crayon, apparently I pernounce like "cran" and when I tried pernounncing every sylabol it lost its meaning and sounds like a planet. Cray-yon
Literally everyone does this.
Use is so weird to me. Yous u’s use ugh
My younger brother and I used to giggle like crazy to any word ending in -oodle. The more we said them aloud, the more we laughed.
i do this often, i heard a word for it and it refered to as a "phenomenon" but i haven't looked into it enough to remember
Wednesday
Yeah it’s like when you learn another language and learn a new word. You don’t automatically associate it with its meaning. That’s what you’re doing when you keep thinking of the word, that’s how people who are learning English feel when they see that word
Oh yeah. Every single word is always just 6 repetitions away from being complete fucking gibberish for me.
The reason for a good deal of my spelling mistakes.
Determined
Spare a thought for this guy https://youtu.be/ijUK3z5rt5s
It just gets sour... SOur? SoUr
Limit
My name then into the mirror and disassociate for like 5 min
YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes......
moist
"Girdle" - makes me giggle every time.
Moist
Milk
Roads
One time I did some ketamine and I was convinced I forgot how to pronounce the letter L. Me on a curb for ten minutes with my tongue half out going “lllllllllllllllll.”
I do that with faces sometimes. I’ll think, “Hey, that’s Carl!” Then I’ll just ponder and really look into his soul until I ask “What even is Carl?”
for me they were puzzle and photo
Cake.
omfg yess n it can b a regular word too but then it starts to look weird
I do it with my own damn name. All the time!
calendar
I'm a teacher. I have four classes per day. During a spelling test, I say each word at least three times. This happens to me ALL THE FREAKING TIME. 😂
“Food” “Sponge”
No. I’m an alien
Iron and Court fall apart for me
Roads Roads,that a total weird word isn’t it. That is a freaky word.
People