Semantic satiation:
Semantic satiation (also
semantic saturation) is a psychological phenomenon in which
repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then processes the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.
from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation
I experience this every now and then, but just found out today what it is called.
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