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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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.

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Haha. You’re welcome.

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

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

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Your aunts don’t like being called old.

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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.

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

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