After saying "Wikipedia" so often that I forgot what I was looking for, I happened on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation

Does this work for political ads? Might less be better? Also for cars and candy bars? Can we really talk ourselves into forgetting what we were talking about?

I can't say that's ever happened to me. Have others experienced it?

It's akin to walking into a room containing a particular odor, say, of flowers, and then staying there for awhile and not noticing the odor after awhile. As kids, we used to play with this by picking a word, any word, and repeating it over and over again 40 or 50 times until it just started to sound like nonsense, which made us giggle.

Maybe kids were weird in Cincinnati in the '50s. I don't know.

Wordmatic

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Maybe kids were weird in Cincinnati in the '50s. I don't know.

Yes. Yes, they were.

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Maybe kids were weird in Cincinnati in the '50s. I don't know.

Wordmatic

Maybe that's why the wonderful TV sitcom, "WKRP in Cincinatti" took place there. The whole cast , save one, was weird - and I loved it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKRP_in_Cincinnati

:-)

Kids are always weird. That's what I love about them.

Really young kids are seldom weird; they're simply honest and curious. Weirdness is mostly learned behavior.