[ledwix]

Why does jamais vu happen? Is it because the words we say are only absent-minded placeholders for actual emotions we're feeling, and that words themselves are all just arbitrary combinations of sounds that can come out of a human mouth? So in a sense, is it that we don't think about the mechanics of words as much as the feelings associated with them?

Well, the same effect works for individual letters. I took a just-for-fun online quiz many months back that asked to name a bunch of words that started with q. It was only like an 8 minute quiz, but toward the end, I started to question whether "q" was actually a letter. It kept looking so weird and foreign. Why was there this backwards "p" all over the page, why wasn't it just a regular "p," and why in the world would it be pronounced like "cue"?

/*Also, I find it funny that "combinations" will give you a spelling error on this site, but "combos" does not. That seems intentional given the nature of the site.*/