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The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon is when you never noticed something or saw something before, and then you see it everywhere.

For example say you see a chipmunk in an area you never noticed them before, and now you just see chipmunks everywhere.

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[โ€“] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Happens all the time when I learn new words. Suddenly that word is everywhere and it never occurred to me that I didn't know its meaning.

I will probably see Baader-Meinhof pop up all over the place in the coming days.

[โ€“] EABOD25@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Haha. You're welcome.

That's happening with the word "nuance" with me

[โ€“] Nemo@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What was wrong with the old ance, that's what I want to know.

[โ€“] Fermion@feddit.nl 7 points 2 days ago

Your aunts don't like being called old.

[โ€“] Alice@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, I think "nuance" is genuinely being used a lot more lately because there's so much backlash against the black-and-white discourse that dominated the internet last decade.

[โ€“] EABOD25@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

As long as it's properly used, but for me, that's a discussion for a later date