Deja vu, the illusion of having previously experiences something being encountered for the first time. Its origin is French, its meaning, literally already seen. Deja vu becoming the go to word around 1900-05. Always interested in word origins, my mind tells me time to check it out. With a tad bit of research, my findings, interesting yet just a bit more of useless info added to my already overcrowded brain. Although I do not consider myself a hoarder, my brain signals, IT IS!
Sounding much like a hauntingly, even sensually romantic question, "Mon cherie, croyez-vous en déjà vue?"would be appropriate if whispered softly in a passionate moment. Yet translate that beautiful phrase to English, "My love do you believe in the already seen?" Not quite the same effect, you might as well just quip, "Hey baby have ya been there, done that?"
That bit of useless trivia behind us, I decided to search further, our friend deja vu also has a scientific name; Promnesia. This term, describes the phenomenon of deja vu, coming from Modern Latin, who I might add, derived it from the Greeks mean, pro-"before" plus mnesia-"memory." Keeping that thought, let's look at the origins of amnesia. This little word became vogue around 1780-90 (can't remember exactly!), the Neo-Latin tongues stole it from the Greeks (again) and is a variant of the word amnestia meaning "oblivion". My mind in a tizzy, delving deeper into this mystery of words, amnestia, for the record was not in the dictionary or at least not mine. Ironically, perhaps they forgot it! Deciding to use word search, amnestia, is mentioned. 2437 Amnestia is a main belt asteroid and was discovered on September 14, 1942 by, can't seem to remember, in the city of Turku on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper. Turku is believed to have been first settled around the 13th century, (they can't remember either) and the predominant language spoken is Swedish! They seem to have forgotten they are in FINLAND!
With all this info meaning absolutely nothing, deja vu still intrigues me. Having had moments of " Mon cherie, croyez-vous en déjà vue?" okay "been there done that!" words intrigue me. How we say them, what we insinuate, what is perceived, everyone processes words and phrases, differently. We perceive certain languages to ooze of sensuality, French, Italian and Spanish, the first to come to mind. When spoken fluently, these words of passion are beautiful, yet it is the thinkers, the free-spirited, the brain hoarders that questions everything and accept nothing as status quo that truly intrigues us all.
Sounding much like a hauntingly, even sensually romantic question, "Mon cherie, croyez-vous en déjà vue?"would be appropriate if whispered softly in a passionate moment. Yet translate that beautiful phrase to English, "My love do you believe in the already seen?" Not quite the same effect, you might as well just quip, "Hey baby have ya been there, done that?"
That bit of useless trivia behind us, I decided to search further, our friend deja vu also has a scientific name; Promnesia. This term, describes the phenomenon of deja vu, coming from Modern Latin, who I might add, derived it from the Greeks mean, pro-"before" plus mnesia-"memory." Keeping that thought, let's look at the origins of amnesia. This little word became vogue around 1780-90 (can't remember exactly!), the Neo-Latin tongues stole it from the Greeks (again) and is a variant of the word amnestia meaning "oblivion". My mind in a tizzy, delving deeper into this mystery of words, amnestia, for the record was not in the dictionary or at least not mine. Ironically, perhaps they forgot it! Deciding to use word search, amnestia, is mentioned. 2437 Amnestia is a main belt asteroid and was discovered on September 14, 1942 by, can't seem to remember, in the city of Turku on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper. Turku is believed to have been first settled around the 13th century, (they can't remember either) and the predominant language spoken is Swedish! They seem to have forgotten they are in FINLAND!
With all this info meaning absolutely nothing, deja vu still intrigues me. Having had moments of " Mon cherie, croyez-vous en déjà vue?" okay "been there done that!" words intrigue me. How we say them, what we insinuate, what is perceived, everyone processes words and phrases, differently. We perceive certain languages to ooze of sensuality, French, Italian and Spanish, the first to come to mind. When spoken fluently, these words of passion are beautiful, yet it is the thinkers, the free-spirited, the brain hoarders that questions everything and accept nothing as status quo that truly intrigues us all.
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