Why do we sometimes say a word or look at a word so many times that it sounds foreign/doesn’t look like a real word?

1.65K views

I hope this makes sense

Like when you’re taking notes and you write a word and it just doesn’t seem spelled correctly no matter what or it just seems strange, or when you say a word and it feels weird coming out and you have difficulty comprehending that it’s an actual word.

In: Other

21 Answers

Anonymous 0 Comments

When I was younger, I once thought about the word “dog” in Hebrew (I’m Israeli) and how it has nothing to do with dogs

“Kelev” doesn’t mean anything of you don’t decide that it does, and we Israelies keep the tradition of assigning that sequence of sound the meaning of “dog” (which itself has no meaning despite 2 totally foreign languages using the word “dog” for that animal)

You are viewing 1 out of 21 answers, click here to view all answers.