Subject: jireem @ utxvms . cc . utexas . edu

does anyone have a term for the experience of looking at a printed word long enough or saying it out loud enough times so that it loses all semantic associations and becomes an absurd sequence of letters or sound ? either an accepted term or a more personal working term will do . respond to me directly and i ' ll summarize to the list . thanks , michael erard dept . of english ut - austin jireem @ utxsvs . cc . utexas . edu
