It always seems that whenever I encounter a new word, I suddenly see it pop up a few more times that day or throughout the following few days.
Like today, I was playing a flash game online, and something about "cauterizing the stumps that used to be my hands" came up (don't ask). I didn't know what cauterizing was (call me uneducated), but it sure as hell sounded painful. Not an hour later, I was playing a rather infuriating quiz app. One of the questions inquired something about in which country was cauterizing wounds popular, or something like that. (I dictionary.com'ed what it means and I cringed.)
I know that's only two occurrences, but it's the most recent example. I'm wracking my brain for another word this happened with, but I'm coming up blank, although I'm pretty sure something similar happened with the word "castrate" (with a similar cringing reaction).
...Has anyone else experienced something like this or am I just overly analytical?
EDIT: Oh, I used a lot of parentheses. I promise I'm not a parentheses whore.
Like today, I was playing a flash game online, and something about "cauterizing the stumps that used to be my hands" came up (don't ask). I didn't know what cauterizing was (call me uneducated), but it sure as hell sounded painful. Not an hour later, I was playing a rather infuriating quiz app. One of the questions inquired something about in which country was cauterizing wounds popular, or something like that. (I dictionary.com'ed what it means and I cringed.)
I know that's only two occurrences, but it's the most recent example. I'm wracking my brain for another word this happened with, but I'm coming up blank, although I'm pretty sure something similar happened with the word "castrate" (with a similar cringing reaction).
...Has anyone else experienced something like this or am I just overly analytical?
EDIT: Oh, I used a lot of parentheses. I promise I'm not a parentheses whore.