Comment on You know when something's on the tip of your tongue and — as frustrating as it is — you'd rather try and think of it rather than look it up? There should be a word for that.

• cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t believe you.

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  • chris@l.roofo.cc ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Let me rephrase that: I never heard one. There is a word for tip of the tongue but not for the concrete situation OP described. I mean the possibility to just look up stuff wherever you are is a very recent development so it makes sense that a word that incorporates this isn’t invented yet.

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    • blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Still don’t believe you. Just smash a sentence together or whatever y’all do. We need you. Latin doesn’t do this.

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      • chris@l.roofo.cc ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I invented one for you:

        Zungenspitzendilemma, das

        When you have something stuck at the tip of your tongue, but looking it up feels like cheating.

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