very recently: 反対, oh and うち　used by (kansai) girls as a personal pronoun. I've just always chalked it up to randomness (since we listen to a lot of japanese, the chances of a hit are pretty good).

Codexus wrote:

It's called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. (linking to damn interesting, as the article on Baader-Meinhof on wikipedia was unfortunately deleted, they keep deleting all the good stuff )

Thank god for you. I've been racking my brain all afternoon trying to remember the name of it after Nuriko posted. This is the 2nd time I've forgotten what it was called when someone asked about it.

I'm gonna SRS that sucker...

Parlaying this form of stylized synchronicity into planned redundancy is what I was attempting to do with the 60/30/10 audio ecology. Another fairly common iteration of utilizing purposeful apophenia to dishabituate, to refresh one's perceptions is to go outside (or find a room with a decent number of objects) and colour-hunt--try to enumerate the number of red objects you can see, try to see them all at once, et cetera.

nest0r wrote:

Parlaying this form of stylized synchronicity into planned redundancy is what I was attempting to do with the 60/30/10 audio ecology. Another fairly common iteration of utilizing purposeful apophenia to dishabituate, to refresh one's perceptions is to go outside (or find a room with a decent number of objects) and colour-hunt--try to enumerate the number of red objects you can see, try to see them all at once, et cetera.

Yes yes... antidisestablishmentarianism indeed.

nest0r wrote:

Oy, you takin' the piss? Cheeky bastard.

:: incredibly british chortling ::

Kidding aside, I do find that this happens. I take measures to make this happen, in fact. You simply have to present more and more opportunities for this to happen. That's, I think, the most important part of language acquisition... giving yourself many many opportunities to reinforce what you've studied.

Yeah, happens all the time. You can study Japanese for ages, find a new word and find it funny how uncommon it is since you've never noticed it and BAM, you see it almost every day.

ropsta wrote:

I like turtles.

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IceCream wrote:

：）　thanks SethG

@Nuriko: that's not a turtle! That's a tortoise! Look at this turtle, it's kind of a giraffe-snake turtle
http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/22 … -17820.jpg

AHHH!!

Latest word: 実体験

Codexus wrote:

the article on Baader-Meinhof on wikipedia was unfortunately deleted, they keep deleting all the good stuff

[citation needed]

aphasiac wrote:

I have this all the time too!

Recently it was the word 一寸（ちょっと）; now I know it, I find it's everywhere!!

O rlly?

So when people said stuff like 「ちょっと待ってよ!」　you had no idea what they were talking about?

Eh, it's OK.  It took me two weeks to figure out how 事(こと） was used.

Like, seriously.  Stuff like 「私の事、嫌い？」 and 「あなたのこと待ってるよ」 confused me.  Dictionaries were of little help.

It was sad.  The only answer was exposure.

as in 一寸 right?
I can't recall ever seeing it written like that, though that might be because of inexperience. It's definitely not the common way to write it though.