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No...it's not "semantic satiation" that's responsible for "peanut butter" fatigue.

It's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRBOgtp0Hac

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Does "baseball bat" sound funny to anyone else?

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I don't know what any of those words mean.

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This happens to me all the time when I'm editing and I'm looking for fluff words to delete.

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Do you have to stop yourself from deleting words that make sense?

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No, but I do have to watch out for deleting a word that may require me to rewrite the sentence as a result.

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I see! Like a little blind spot you don't really notice in the moment? This makes me want to write about cognitive blind spots!

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So many blind spots when writing novels. My brain will totally autocorrect typos. LOL

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This is all my brain could think about from the first Peanut Butter

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Does this happen to you a lot?

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Oh yes. Your description of neuron connections reinforcing recall when you forget a word hits me on the daily. Thank god I can look stuff up else I'd be completely useless.

But peanut butter jelly time? Never forget

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Alley says she can't remember this ever happening to her! This is like when my friend told me he couldn't envision shapes in his mind. I'm glad we had that discussion.

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