tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794893825407092443.post794016372453253307..comments2023-12-29T04:36:07.964-04:00Comments on Square 8: On repetition (again)Bevhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766614739853100172noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794893825407092443.post-63384947551563036582015-05-31T08:15:33.800-04:002015-05-31T08:15:33.800-04:00Semantic satiation happens with buzzwords, until t...Semantic satiation happens with buzzwords, until they lose their meanings:<br />• Synergy<br />• Paradigm shift<br />• transformational<br />• democracyMiguel Palaciohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02311154354365423829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794893825407092443.post-59735396561032358682007-10-27T17:52:00.000-04:002007-10-27T17:52:00.000-04:00Ryan,Sorry about that second shot of sarcasm. No h...Ryan,<BR/>Sorry about that second shot of sarcasm. No harm intended, of course. Though I could be oversensitve if anyone REALLY questioned my scholorship of Gilligan's Island!Bevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06766614739853100172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794893825407092443.post-38274415707484935382007-10-27T15:53:00.000-04:002007-10-27T15:53:00.000-04:00Now, clearly, you are being sarcastic. I'm not su...Now, clearly, you are being sarcastic. I'm not sure if I should apologize for missing the joke. As an adult aspie, I have no problem employing a sly sort of sarcasm at times; identifying it from others is an otherworldly difficulty, however much I might expect it. I usually have to ask for clarification, even in the "real world".Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13760013948277695697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794893825407092443.post-46301302744911818962007-10-27T13:27:00.000-04:002007-10-27T13:27:00.000-04:00Sarcasm? Irony? From an autistic person? No, we re...Sarcasm? Irony? From an autistic person? No, we really wouldn't know about that complex Theory of Mind stuff!Bevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06766614739853100172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794893825407092443.post-82784398185867447402007-10-26T23:59:00.000-04:002007-10-26T23:59:00.000-04:00Urkel was the professor on Gilligan's Island.Are y...<I>Urkel was the professor on Gilligan's Island.</I><BR/><BR/>Are you being sarcastic or ironic? <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Professor_%28Gilligan%27s_Island%29" REL="nofollow">The professor</A>'s character's name was Roy Hinkley; the character was played by Russell Johnson. <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urkel" REL="nofollow">Urkel</A> was from Family Matters.<BR/><BR/>While I no longer publicly engage in palilalia, I will still catch myself mouthing or writing a word over and over in the hopes that a new, deeper meaning will come to me. When the word begins to lose its meaning, I usually stop; if I continue until the word has lost its meaning entirely, then I am always struck with a momentary panic that the meaning will never again return. I wonder how universal such thoughts might actually be.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for giving me the name for it. Semantic satiation. Semantic satiation, semantic satiation, semantic satiation, semantic satiation.Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13760013948277695697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794893825407092443.post-31525974165448861082007-10-24T21:38:00.000-04:002007-10-24T21:38:00.000-04:00That reminds me of how i always used to mishear th...That reminds me of how i always used to mishear the bit at the end of Looney Tunes cartoons when Porky Pig (who had a stutter) would say "Th-th-th-th-th-th=that's all folks!"<BR/><BR/>I heard it as "Zick-a-zack zick-a-zack zick-a-zack SO-SO!", and thought it was the <I>sound</I> of the frame/portal thing (that would close around him as he said it) closing... and so, in my fantasy play when i was acting out going through holes between worlds/dimensions, i would use that as the sound effect for closing them...<BR/><BR/>It was <I>years</I> before i realised that a) Porky Pig had a stutter and b) he was actually saying "That's all, folks" (it didn't help that i had no idea what "folks" could mean, never having heard its US English language usage outside of a cartoon - the only "folk" i knew about was folk music)...stevethehydrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18334234855643025449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794893825407092443.post-75109931451395451122007-10-23T17:21:00.000-04:002007-10-23T17:21:00.000-04:00There's one that my son does that cracks me up... ...There's one that my son does that cracks me up... He's trying to say the line "I poured a bowl of Crunchies", but the way he hears - and likes to repeat it, is: "I poya poya poya poya poya Crunchies". Even though I taught him the right way to say it, he still prefers to say "poya poya poya", so I just laugh and repeat it along with him.Another Autism Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15068526422102642426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794893825407092443.post-40993359103001561392007-10-23T16:00:00.000-04:002007-10-23T16:00:00.000-04:00Evonne,Please get back to work. Pay her no mind, J...Evonne,<BR/>Please get back to work. Pay her no mind, Joe. Urkel was the professor on Gilligan's Island.<BR/><BR/>Shiva,<BR/>I still can't recall if "then" is a word. It's a bit like "hello", isn't it? Words that have somewhat "slippery" meanings to start with are especially fun to play with. <BR/><BR/>DJ Kirkby,<BR/>Interesting. I also dream scrambled words of text, nonsense writing that makes sense to me at first, but then I can't figure the rest out. <BR/><BR/>Phil,<BR/>Yes, this resonates with some of the ways repetition is important to me. Thanks for your insight.Bevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06766614739853100172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794893825407092443.post-29519154987302859542007-10-23T13:10:00.000-04:002007-10-23T13:10:00.000-04:00"Urkel" was on Family Matters; Arnold and Willis w..."Urkel" was on Family Matters; Arnold and Willis were on Diff'rent Strokes. Not that I'm paying attention.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794893825407092443.post-59071307031652473142007-10-23T10:02:00.000-04:002007-10-23T10:02:00.000-04:00Wasn't "Firkel" one of "Urkel's" friends on "Diffe...Wasn't "Firkel" one of "Urkel's" friends on "Different Strokes"? If not that, then perhaps a Disney character?<BR/><BR/>In any event, loved the Maxwell Smart lunchbox/lunch box.<BR/><BR/>JoeClub 166https://www.blogger.com/profile/01816977079856902634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794893825407092443.post-65095308651612307762007-10-22T18:30:00.000-04:002007-10-22T18:30:00.000-04:00I have been very busy with work lately and just go...I have been very busy with work lately and just got caught up on your blog.<BR/><BR/>I think the last few entries are some of your most insightful and enlightened ever.<BR/><BR/>'Hello, my name is straw man'<BR/><BR/>That was made of awesome.<BR/><BR/>~Sarah<BR/><BR/>ooops, I could lose my AS dx......talking about work....I suppose I should be unemployed instead of working late proofreading contracts. Hyper focus is an ASD payoff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794893825407092443.post-61017504610906434402007-10-22T09:43:00.000-04:002007-10-22T09:43:00.000-04:00Damn straight.Damn straight.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794893825407092443.post-9618412898519341872007-10-20T20:31:00.000-04:002007-10-20T20:31:00.000-04:00I think there is a shared aesthetic sensibility am...I think there is a shared aesthetic sensibility among many of us on the spectrum that focuses on repetition, and in particular on minor variations within a repeated structure or framework.<BR/><BR/>I think it has a great deal to do with how we make use of the attentional and sensory bandwidth we have at our disposal. Art imitating life: the strategies we use to parse meaning out of sensory cacophony in turn drive our aesthetic preferences.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15510151176700173298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794893825407092443.post-3924701668374113042007-10-20T17:24:00.000-04:002007-10-20T17:24:00.000-04:00I dream in words that don't exist outside of my mi...I dream in words that don't exist outside of my mind sometimes, I didn't know anyone esle experienced anything similar. Thank you.DJ Kirkbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08481107164497582398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794893825407092443.post-39792275989936486142007-10-20T16:38:00.000-04:002007-10-20T16:38:00.000-04:00"My mother said I would lose my mind if I didn’t c..."My mother said I would lose my mind if I didn’t cut it out."<BR/><BR/>The first time i read that, i read "it" as meaning your mind, and sat there puzzling over how cutting one's mind out would prevent one from losing it... maybe an unintential allusion to some of the nastier curebie practices? ;)<BR/><BR/>Semantic satiation is a great thing - it can happen to <I>any</I> word. I remember doing it with the word "when" when i was a kid and spending absolutely <I>ages</I> (like, months) afterwards wondering whether there actually really was such a word as "when", or if i had just made it up... great way to screw with your head!<BR/><BR/>Not sure that overuse of terms in the press is *quite* the same concept, but it's an interesting parallel...stevethehydrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18334234855643025449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794893825407092443.post-84473843846252883122007-10-20T13:23:00.000-04:002007-10-20T13:23:00.000-04:00Not just individual words, but all sorts of ideas ...<I>Not just individual words, but all sorts of ideas can be promoted from nonsense to apparent sense through frequent repetition.</I><BR/><BR/>That was a major part of Hitler's <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lie" REL="nofollow">Big Lie</A> propaganda strategy, which Autism Speaks evidently has mastered.abfhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01228622726560993968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794893825407092443.post-34971305605354474202007-10-19T03:44:00.000-04:002007-10-19T03:44:00.000-04:00"If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it not nearly eno..."If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it not nearly enough."<BR/><BR/>:-D<BR/><BR/>Good post.Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10683984456328644922noreply@blogger.com