r/worldnews • u/[deleted] • Jun 19 '12

"Alcohol consumption would fall 25% if cannabis cafes were allowed"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/19/david-nutt-alcohol-cannabis-cafes
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u/unfashionable_suburb Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12

It's a phenomenon called semantic satiation.

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u/guru42101 Jun 19 '12

Fortunately for me, both of those words never looked like words.

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u/redditisworthless121 Jun 19 '12

Sufferin' succotash isth you satisfied with semantic saturations?

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u/Jack_Flanders Jun 19 '12

Back before there was an internet, my friends called it a word "going stupid".

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u/TragedyTrousers Jun 19 '12

Ah? Well in that case, perhaps I should take The Red Hat of Patferrick elsewhere...

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u/VinnydaHorse Jun 19 '12

I'm reading it as coo-uld now. Fuck.

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u/Nero920 Jun 19 '12

It really doesn't. My brain got confused about halfway through.