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.

  • Björn Tantau
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • @EABOD25@lemm.eeOP
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      92 months ago

      Haha. You’re welcome.

      That’s happening with the word “nuance” with me

      • @Alice@beehaw.org
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        22 months ago

        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.

        • @EABOD25@lemm.eeOP
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          12 months ago

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