Milgram was a fantastic dramaturg. His studies are fantastic little pieces of theater. They’re beautifully scripted,” said Stephen Reicher, a professor of psychology at the University of St. Andrews and a co-editor of the Journal of Social Issues’ special edition.
According to my brain, I have never noticed this word for 30+ years. One day I see it and look it up, and then I run into it the next day? It sure does FEEL like someone is playing with my mind.
I recently saw “My Cousin Vinny” for the first time and loved the scene in which Vinny’s love interest, Mona Lisa Vito, is revealed as the world’s greatest expert on automobiles. Just this week, in the ridiculous “deflationgate” saga, I overheard a press conference on the subject, containing this:
I’ve never seen it spelled exactly that way. And now you’re seeing it all over the place with that spelling? I’ve always seen it is dramaturge. (with final e). Have you also see the word “thaumaturge”? (A practitioner of thaumaturgy of course.)
I just saw an article containing the word “dramaturg” (spelled thus). As I noted several posts above, I’ve seen the word before, but never spelled exactly that way until this thread.
I’ve had this recently with smells. I had an appliance start to smoke a couple weeks ago at home, and then I smelled old smoke in a couple specific places at work all the time I’m in there (and it’s getting fainter so it’s not like it’s an imminent problem). Also, I walked nearby an indoor waterfall yesterday and I could smell the chlorine from the falling water and today I could smell the chlorine from the pool next to the laundry room at my apartment when I walked past it, which I had never smelled consciously before.
The next morning, I was listening to the radio for a couple of minutes before getting up and heard the Roy Orbison version that predated it by 15 years. That’s how I discovered that this song that I’d known for at least 25 years was actually a cover.
Years ago I heard (on the radio) a single word that describes this phenomenon with respect to words (learn word brand new to you, see it all around afterward). It has been extended to other facets of life (like noticing lot of cars on the road of the same make as the car you just bought). I can’t recall it for the life of me. Everytime I try to google it, I just get ‘Baader-Meinhof phenomenon’ or variants.
A few weeks ago, I listened to the audio book version of The Hunger Games. I liked it, so I got Catching Fire and started listening to that, too. Not long in, I saw on television that they were going to broadcast The Hunger Games on Feb. 8th. It was the only commercial I saw for it, but then, I’ve trained myself to not pay attention to commercials whenever possible.