I’ve been watching Ted Lasso (have you been watching Ted Lasso? You should be watching Ted Lasso) recently and at the beginning of an episode I watched last night, the titular Lasso gets hung up on the word "plan". After he says the word a few too many times he feels like it starts to lose its meaning. When he asks his friend/assistant coach about his experience, he’s reminded that it’s called "semantic satiation", whereby a repeated word becomes abstract noise to a listener.
I'm always here for nerdy, linguistic trivia thrown into the middle of my emotional sports comedies.