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Old 10-26-2007, 07:47 AM
Slow Play Ray Slow Play Ray is offline
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Default Re: Hearing a word the first time in your life.

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Pheromones, confirmation bias, or green chevy syndrome - but, why does this happen. Why for x word and not y?

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because you now notice both of them more. you heard X so picked up on it, but like someone earlier said, if you learned new word Y but then didn't hear it used afterwards, you would not even notice that.
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