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30 Jul 2024 06:29:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Mars needs to get the heck out of the Uncanny Valley  
From: Kevin Wampler
Date: 6 Apr 2011 20:16:53
Message: <4d9d0275@news.povray.org>
On 4/6/2011 5:04 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 4/6/2011 16:16, Kevin Wampler wrote:
>> I spent so long staring
>
> I find this happens with any image, animation, or sound effect with me.
>
> Or even, for that matter, saying the same word over and over until it
> stops making sense and you don't remember how to spell it any more.
>

There's actually a term for that (at least the meaning part, I dunno 
about the spelling part): 
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Semantic_satiation


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