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by otras 724 days ago
An easy way to do this is to remember this oddly grammatically correct sentence:

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

Though is it satiation if the meaning is different for different instances?

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I don’t think that’s the same at all. Nobody could ever actually understand that sentence without breaking it down.

Semantic satiation can come up when you’re having a conversation and use the same word often enough (not necessarily back to back) that it feels like that word is wrong, or doesn’t mean anything. You start to pay attention to the sound of the word instead of the meaning.