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#1
10-25-2007, 11:45 PM
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Hearing a word the first time in your life.
Have you ever noticed that when you hear/learn a word for the first time, it seems that you then hear it often? Do you think you never actually heard the word before or is it that you never noticed it when you did and now something clicked, so hearing it again is really not coincidence?
This has happened to me many times and it just happened Monday/today. I was talking with some friends on Monday and one guy said something. I had never heard the word before, but got the gist of it in context. I was just reading one of the treads here on 2+2 and saw the same word written. (I was glad to have stumbled upon it, because I couldn’t remember what the word was after our dinner - had a few drinks.) 
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#2
10-26-2007, 12:06 AM
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Re: Hearing a word the first time in your life.
This happens to me sometimes, too, but I have no insight as to whether it's magic or just selective memory.
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#3
10-26-2007, 12:49 AM
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Re: Hearing a word the first time in your life.
When I was taking the test for entrance into the Police Academy I had an interview and part of the interview was reading a bunch of words. One word was "egregious," and at the time I never heard or saw that word in my life. I didn't even know how to pronounce it. Since that day, I've probably heard it 10+ times.
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10-26-2007, 01:50 AM
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Re: Hearing a word the first time in your life.
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Dont tell us what the word is or anything. [/ QUOTE ] The word is irrelevant. (No, not “irrelevant”, I’ve heard that word before.) Why, so you will know how illiterate I am? Ok, I’ll give you a hint: It’s in the dictionary. Two hints, begins with the letter A.
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10-26-2007, 07:19 AM
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Re: Hearing a word the first time in your life.
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since i come from a biology background, i can tell you the effect is caused by pheromones [/ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] nice try, but I don't think that will attract aa to you more often, regardless of pheromones [/ QUOTE ] This is starting to freak me out. (Just kidding.) Regardless of how it works, I guess I humor easier than most. Either that or most readers here simply have a more extensive vocabulary than I. (Not as likely to hear new words.)
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10-26-2007, 07:34 AM
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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? [/ QUOTE ] It happens the same for both. That's what confirmation bias means, it's the same as green chevy syndrome.
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