• Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org
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      There are words and phrases in English that get used sarcastically so often they lose their original meaning. There is a word for this and I swear I’ve seen a whole list somewhere but my google fu is weak today.

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        related but different there’s the “euphemism treadmill” where scientific terms get turned into slurs over time; lame, retarded, sped etc.

        • Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          No - semantic satiation is when you read or hear a word so much in a short timeframe that it stops feeling like a real word, and briefly feels like just a jumble of letters/sounds.

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            I hate semantic satiation. It happens all the time while programming for me. I’ll have a variable name with some common word and, after typing it a few times my brain just stops recognizing it as a real word. This sometimes sends me into etymology dives to figure out why the word “jump” (or whatever) looks so strange.

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      Now, I expect to be down voted.

      I don’t care, but I’m going to piss a lot of people off.

      I say “I could care less”.

      That’s sarcasm. It’s what my nineties, heroin chic, grunge music adolescence gave me.

      I could care less. It would just require that I make an effort. That’s not caring less. That’s caring about something.

      It’s like how the biggest homophobes always seem to be closeted. They care too much.