2022-02-03 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – D – Déjà vu

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2022-02-03

ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – D – Déjà vu

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Dictionary.com:

Déjà vu or de·ja vu = “dey-zhah -VOO” or “- VYOO” 

           French = “dey-zha -VY”

 

Common Errors in English Usage Dictionary

Déjà vu

In French déjà vu means literally “already seen” 

and usually refers to something excessively familiar. 

 

However the phrase, sans accent marks, 

was introduced into Englishmainly as a psychological term 

indicating the sensation one experiences when feeling that 

something has been experienced before 

when this is in fact not the case. 

 

If you feel strongly that 

you have been previously in a place where you know for a fact 

you have never before been,

you are experiencing a sensation of deja vu. 

 

English usage is rapidly sliding back toward the French meaning,

confusing listeners who expect the phrase to refer to a false sensation rather than a factual familiarity, 

as in 

“Congress is in session and talking about campaign finance reform, creating a sense of deja vu.” 

In this relatively new sense, 

the phrase has the same associations 

as the colloquial “same old, same old” 

(increasingly often misspelled “sameo, sameo” by illiterates). 

 

“It seems like it’s deja vu all over again,” is a redundantly mangled saying usually attributed to baseball player Yogi Berra. 

 

Over the ensuing decades clever writers would allude 

to this blunder in their prose by repeating the phrase 

“deja vu all over again,” 

assuming that their readers would catch the allusion 

and share a chuckle with them. 

 

Unfortunately, recently the phrase has been worn to a frazzle 

and become all but substituted for the original, 

so that not only has it become a very tired joke indeed

—a whole generation has grown up thinking that the mangled version 

is the correct form of the expression. 

Give it a rest, folks!