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“Semantic Satiation” Is When A Repeated Word Ceases To Convey Meaning

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Yes, Friday is for other things as well as Rebecca Black videos, remixes, and covers. Sometimes it’s for supercuts of all your favorite movies that will repeat a single phrase until it reaches the point of semantic satiation.

Congratulations, you now know the phrase for when you hear a word so many times that it loses all meaning!

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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