and stops sounding like an actual word.
A platitude? Or baloney bologna.
You mean sorta like when Trump says “Believe me”?
It’s a form of jamais vu, the opposite of deja vu.
Specifically it’s called semantic satiation
I remember as a kid being fascinated by it, repeating my own name until it sounded like a meaningless cluster of sounds.
Semantic saturation or verbal satiation it is repeated on infinitum !
*Fake News” means Trump has gotten caught again with a bad lie. . .
Jinks @Demosthenes I owe you a Coca-Cola !
It becomes gibberish.
Not in succession but same way we tell our partner “I love you” everyday!!