Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. After a week in which the East suffered through earthquakes and a hurricane, we could all use a little entertainment. So here ...

When a word is repeated over and over, it starts to lose its meaning and just becomes an abstract sound; this is called semantic satiation. Try it. In Israel and throughout the Diaspora, Jews are ...

While filming his role as Fallout Boy for the Radioactive Man movie, Milhouse Van Houten was required to repeat his character’s catchphrase – Jiminy Jillickers – so many times that the words lost all ...

(CNN) — Semantic satiation is the phenomenon in which a word or phrase is repeated so often it loses its meaning. But it also becomes something ridiculous, a jumble of letters that feels alien on the ...