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?

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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.

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Meaning is applied to the words, it’s not inherent. So I’m guessing it has something to do with that. The word and the meaning that we apply to it are two separate things.

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