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[devi]

ARGH AM INCAPABLE OF DOING ANY WORK WHATSOEVER.

I need help to get enthused about words. What's your current favourite word and why do you like it?

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[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I have a love of spirals too, for many of the same reasons.

But yes, definitely, sometimes a common word gets disconnected from its meaning in my head and spends several days sounding like a silly, meaningless series of sounds. Especially when I've been using it a lot.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

There ought to be a word for that.

[mooism.livejournal.com]

“Desemantication”?

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

No. Sounds like spitting out something distasteful. And I've always seen 'semantics' as applying to sentences rather than to an individual words.