Have You Noticed...

[Embodiment Of The Living]

Have you ever noticed that when you type a word multiple times, it starts to look strange?

Try it and see.  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

Same goes for when you say a word over and over again as well.

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Yeah, they do start to look rather strange. Probably something to do with the brain's way of perceiving them.  

[GabbySilverwood]

I think it's a self defense mechanisum to prevent a single word from getting stuck repeating over and over again inside of your head. Seriously, can you picture how bad that would be?  

[dark_elf]

How about if you sit there and say a word over and over, it starts to sound werid. Or maybe that just me thinking to must about just a word. confused  

[Litia_Echo]

When I do that, I start thinking that i am misspelling the word. Ack, it always gets to me...  

[Katleene-chan]

Maybe there is something scienctific about it?  

[Ithaya]

Well it's hardly surprising really...

But I've had so much fun with that fact before...

One time, when I was in a really weird mood, I walked along eliminating certain words from a friend's vocabulary by repeating them so much she practically forgot what they meant. "Pie," "glory," and "jack" were some. By the time we arrived at her house, we were both questioning the meaning of those words.
It was rather amusing, really. Well, highly amusing, considering the state I was in.  

[jocef_XP]

I'm weirded out by typing fall over and over again.

I kept typing fall backwards, or just wrong.  

[Orange Noise]

I find this works particularly well with the word "Golf."  

[NikiPound]

It doesn't just happen with typing a word, either... I've found that if you read the same word over and over, it starts to look unfamiliar, as though I'd never noticed before how it was spelled. That happened to me a couple times when I was reading through a book and looking for words I didn't know. I'd read a word a couple times, and then I'd decide I didn't really know the word, even if I did, because it looked so strange those last few times I read it.  

[Embodiment Of The Living]

M'hm. Perhaps it is because it is just... I fail to explain it. Perhaps it is so because if you start to get a word stuck in yoiur mind...It could drive you to insanity.  

[KoshiDoragon]

Time may fly, tears may dry~

~If you write it down using paper and pencil, it doesn't do that. However, if you type it out, it does. Why? Because the human brain is registering the blots and blobs of the typed words. After receiving the same blots and blobs, the brain gets confused and starts to think something is wrong.

Well, that is my understanding sweatdrop

But our friendship will never die~

 

[Sachiko13]

this happens to me all the time, mostly with the word "leprechaun." mainly because my user name is "ladyleprechaun" on many websites, and i log onto all of them at the same time. at around the second or third, i start getting confused.  

[DulcetMelody]

i have a problem with the word "banana" when i say it over and over and the start saying jumbled up versions of banana. then my friends laugh at me. lol  

[Death By Fruit]

Also, when you say a word multiple times in a row, it begins to lose it's meaning.