It’s so interesting how you go from never even having seen a word before to it popping up in multiple places. I just learned about funiculars like two weeks ago thanks to this YouTube video about diagonal elevators in video games https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M2oELc61XHE
The same thing happens to me with various things, roughly at a pace of 2-ish per year. It’s always weird. Like, apparently this thing has been common since the seventies, but somehow I stumbled about it only now and now I keep encountering it all the damn time!
I guess it’s a combination of your interests having changed a tiny little bit and your brain having ignored the unknown word as irrelevant until you learn about it. If you don’t believe, watch this short video and you will get what I mean:
It’s so interesting how you go from never even having seen a word before to it popping up in multiple places. I just learned about funiculars like two weeks ago thanks to this YouTube video about diagonal elevators in video games https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M2oELc61XHE
Yeah it’s the Big funicular™ conspiracy.
The same thing happens to me with various things, roughly at a pace of 2-ish per year. It’s always weird. Like, apparently this thing has been common since the seventies, but somehow I stumbled about it only now and now I keep encountering it all the damn time!
I guess it’s a combination of your interests having changed a tiny little bit and your brain having ignored the unknown word as irrelevant until you learn about it. If you don’t believe, watch this short video and you will get what I mean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
It annoys me that my human brain works like this. It means I cannot really trust it.
Yeah that’s funny. I just learned about the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon last week, and now I see it mentioned everywhere.
Going fully recursive I see.