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I have been searching high and low for a word that describes the following notion or experience:

It seems that when one learns a new word or concept, one suddenly becomes more aware of its existence. ie. one begins to hear it or read it more often.

What word exists in the English language that describes this recognition of new learned concepts that we previously filtered out?

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Kai good question and deserves a thread of ts own but in the meantime can anyone come up with the one I've been trying to remember--thanks all


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 Originally Posted By: dalehileman
Kai good question and deserves a thread of ts own but in the meantime can anyone come up with the one I've been trying to remember--thanks all


gosh dale, were you afraid we'd forgotten? oh, wait.. I'm supposed to be ignoring you.

never mind.

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tsuwm, don't they have a word over at word origins for what Kai is talking about? I seem to recall you mentioning it.

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 Originally Posted By: Hydra
tsuwm, don't they have a word over at word origins for what Kai is talking about? I seem to recall you mentioning it.


that would be diegogarcity; thanx for the nudzh, Hydra.

-joe (diegogarcity happens for me all the time) friday

edit: the SW article referenced was titled Diego Garcia, in Granta issue 73, no longer available online (but see post in Miscellany).

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