HAUNTED

Excuse the overuse of Odyssean analogies, but I too am a humble hero on a tumultuous journey home.

Semantic satiation is the name given to that phenomenon that causes a word to temporarily lose meaning when you say it over and over again in quick succession.

Frenulum. Frenulum. Frenulum. Frenulum. Frenulum. Frenulum. Frenulum. Frenulum.

I think collectively, societally, we’ve stripped a few words of their meaning, perhaps permanently, by their repetition too. The word “trauma,” for example, by its complete and utter overuse, means absolutely nothing anymore.

Trauma. Trauma. Trauma. Trauma. Trauma. Trauma. Trauma. Trauma. Trauma. Trauma.