Mom actually took apart the word and said, "Feeling complete with the words you chose, feeling like you chose the right words"
Jessie said, "Helping to be satisfied."
Dad: "Being overloaded with language and words."
Kevin, who I actually called to ask: "A Satisfied Jewish Person"
My cousin, who overheard Kevin: "Having your reason fully satisfied."
They were pretty close. Kind of.
Semantic Satiation is actually when you say a word so many times, that it starts to lose its meaning. So, in the last post, when I said that you really really really really really couldn't wait for this phrase, I was actually giving you a clue.
Semantic Satiation was coined in 1962 by American (And Probably Polish) Leon Jakobovits James. He used the phrase in his doctoral dissertation, and is now the "commonly" used phrase. Before 1962, the term "Verbal Satiation" was the norm. My favorite phrase that was used is "Refractory Phase and Mental Fatigue". Yeah.
I'm pretty sure this phrase can also be used for spelling out a word. I always thought that Book was one of those words. You just say it, and it seems fine. Then you go to spell it, and you're like, "How does B-O-O-K make that sound, when B-O-O makes a completely different sound?" At least I think that.
Semantic Satiation has actually been used in beneficial purposes, too. People that stutter, or have a hard time saying words, even people that can't make a certain sound, use Semantic Satiation, because it gets them used to saying the word. So, in the example above, if someone could not say their "S" sound, they may find it difficult to say "Bicycle", unless they say it a lot of times. Their mouth eventually gets use to the sound, and makes that tongue formation almost every time. People that stutter have the same problem.
