Hey Detritus
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- madirish0
were you reading Dwell? i just read this word in that yesterday...
- 7point340
it's just that you notice it now... it happens anytime you learn a new word.
you probably saw it before and ignored it or didn't remember it
kind of like how teh ladies treat nairn in real life
- Jaline0
^ this is true (regarding: learning words)
- detritus0
I was going to ask this last week - there's a term for this, that I can't for the life of me remember - does anyone here? It's for the spike in encounters with a new concept, just after you've learned it.
I had it years ago with, bizarrely, the concrete weights you get in some tumble dryer machines. I read about it somewhere, then over the course of a few days thereafter encountered 3 opened up dryers on the street, then had our one taken apart so I could see inside. Utterly banal, I know - but it freaked me out a little nonetheless.
- yeah it alwasy happens... its uncanny... is there a term? i would love to know it too7point34
- Jaline0
oh god, yes! I remember us talking about it before. I may have even started a thread about it...
- Jaline0
yes! I found it:
http://www.qbn.com/topics/389729…- wowgosh, 30 months later and I'm still peddling the same memory.detritus
- Jaline0
Thank kelpie!
- no probskelpie
- God I'm good.kelpie
- (at search engines)kelpie
- After searching in 2005 I gave up.Jaline
- < that's not a spelling mistake, by the way. I meant kelpie = god.Jaline
- I know my child, in fact I've bought a secluded ranch and intend to open a retreat for spiritual study...kelpie
- ..now lie naked upon the altar, my child.detritus
- I hope detritus is like Gaius Baltar.Jaline
- 7point340
this is like when kelpie first introduced 'sex tunnel' and then everywhere i looked i saw sex tunnels everywhere...
of course i was looking at porn sites, but that is besides the point
- detritus0
That's a bit odd - weren't you joking about Baader-Meinhof just last week, Kelpie?
- kelpie0
by fuck you know I think I may just have been, hahaha
- Oh, I thought it was me.Spookytim
- *slowly (but very surely) backs away from thread*detritus
- Detritus... why?Spookytim
- It's all gone a bit ketamine, tbh.detritus
- Fuck it. Okay. I'm out. Apologies for joining in with the "phenomenon phenomenon"....Spookytim
- ... Didn't realise it was a club.
* Gone from your sceneSpookytim
- chossy0
I like this community, I am glad to be part of it, part of you, inside you, I want to be in you, I am in your mouth and have been on your hair, round your belly and dangled loosely at your feet.
- kelpie0
is that the reverse baader meinhoff effect?
- 2pence0
I thought the name was after some kind of rash found in ones nether regions.
- detritus0
I still think there was a specific word for this though. Not that I don't appreciate Kelpie's answer - but I suspect word memes derived from internet forums - they don't stand up to the intellectual purity I expect from the deep seam of pretension I need in my vocabulary.
- Jaline0
Let's just call it the kelpitus
- kelpie0
http://www.damninteresting.com/?…
I don't think there is a specific word for it, maybe because it seems to be the effect of a number of facets of the way we perceive and process the information we take in. You'd need a head doc to be sure.
- kelpie0
"How the phenomenon came to be known as "Baader-Meinhof" is uncertain. It seems likely that some individual learned of the existence of the historic German urban guerrilla group which went by that name, and then heard the name again soon afterwards. This plucky wordsmith may then have named the phenomenon after the very subject which triggered it. But it is certainly a mouthful; a shorter name might have more hope of penetrating the lexicon."