Edward Andrew Robinson » psycholinguistics http://www.earobinson.org “Brilliant people simplify things, and mediocre people complicate things.” — Unknown Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:52:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Form Forum? http://www.earobinson.org/2009/03/14/form-forum/ http://www.earobinson.org/2009/03/14/form-forum/#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:21:05 +0000 Edward Andrew Robinson http://www.earobinson.org/?p=237 Dictionary.com defines a form as:

a document with blank spaces to be filled in with particulars before it is executed: a tax form.  — source

and a forum as:

an assembly, meeting place, television program, etc., for the discussion of questions of public interest. — source

Ok well I cherry picked the definitions that best suited my purposes, but anyway, I have been using both of these words is a lot of code lately and I admit the words have lost all meaning to me. In speech this is called semantic satiation, where intense repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener. So what is this called when you code? Dose it happen to anyone else? I know that for me the words “form” and “forum” have lost all meaning and look completely spelt wrong now. I think its even worse that the words are so similar prompting me to write this post, however this happens to me even with one word if I use it to much in code.

Thoughts?

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