Why can saying a word repeatedly eventually feel weird, like, it isn’t a real word or feel like it you’ve never heard it before?

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Why can saying a word repeatedly eventually feel weird, like, it isn’t a real word or feel like it you’ve never heard it before?

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It’s neural fatigue. You keep activating those connections responsible for storing that word and its associations, and eventually they don’t want to respond as effectively as normal. If you give it a while, they reset themselves and the word seems normal again.

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