@[email protected] to Ask [email protected]English • 22 days agoWhat is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language?message-square225fedilinkarrow-up1152arrow-down11
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink35•edit-221 days agoPick any of them, and repeat it over and over again. It’ll quickly become the weirdest word in the language, at least for a while.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink25•21 days agoThis is called “semantic satiation” which are both pleasingly weird words now that I think about it…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-221 days agoI’m pretty sure “Purple” stops making sense faster than others. Just wtf? Pur-pull. Prrr-plll. What is wrong with people?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•edit-221 days agolook. look… look… look… ! look… ? ? look ?? Is this even a real word?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•20 days agoIn scots gaelic purple is ‘purpaidh’ pronounced “pur-pee” which is equally as strange imo
Pick any of them, and repeat it over and over again. It’ll quickly become the weirdest word in the language, at least for a while.
This is called “semantic satiation” which are both pleasingly weird words now that I think about it…
I’m pretty sure “Purple” stops making sense faster than others. Just wtf? Pur-pull. Prrr-plll. What is wrong with people?
look.
look…
look…
look… !
look… ?
? look ?? Is this even a real word?
In scots gaelic purple is ‘purpaidh’ pronounced “pur-pee” which is equally as strange imo
Bowl
Hip.
Bradey
While
Whyle
Whyull
Yull
Yul