Looking it up just kinda feels like cheating, y’know? Or at least throwing in the towel.
There’s probably a word for it in German or Swedish. I bet it’s long and hard to pronounce, maybe with a non-English pronunciation symbol.
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.
Submitted 10 months ago by HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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exixx@lemmy.world 10 months ago
jasep@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Google translate says “Zungenspitze” is the German word for “tip of tongue”.
cmbabul@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’d be surprised if there isn’t a German word for it
trk@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I think it’s “tipphoffzetongue”
lobelia581@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
sometimes it’s something that can’t be looked up like a song tune or a scene from a show. i tried searching once using humming and it didn’t work, but thankfully it only took a couple days for me to remember where it was from
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A couple of days…! I get annoyed after a couple of minutes, lol
lobelia581@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
it was definitely annoying that’s for sure
Sigh_Bafanada@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Once, I had a song in my head that I wasn’t able to remember much about. I posted on the /r/tipofmytongue community, letting them know that all I could remember was “eh, oppah”
After a few incorrect guesses, somebody realized that it was Moby’s “Natural Blues”
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Definitely the worst part of being a post rock fan, or I guess a fan of any instrumental music.
DrRatso@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Generally it is literally called a “tip-of-the-tongue” state in psych literature. Presque vu is the “fancy” french word for it, and means almost seen, similar to deja vu (already seen).
fidodo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is there a word for when there’s a word that’s on the tip of your tongue but it turns out the word doesn’t actually exist?
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Flitung
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I thought the post title was a joke. Like you couldn’t remember the word you were thinking of to describe when you can’t think of a word.
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes I did see the irony at the time of writing
IamRoot@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Something like onamanfuckmeah
Bahalex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m partial the term ‘wonder kill’ for when one does look it up.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I always experience a phenomenon in which no matter how hard I wrack my brain trying to think of the thing that’s on the tip of my tongue, as soon as I go to look it up or ask somebody, it suddenly comes to my mind right before they tell me the answer.
cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world 10 months ago
Happens to me often with wordle. I take a screenshot to send my friend and show her that I’m stuck, and for some reason right after I send it, the answer comes to me.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes it happens to you too, isn’t it a weird phenomenon??
like I wouldn’t be surprised if I could even predict the lottery Powerball numbers a fraction of a second before they are called out LOL
willya@lemmyf.uk 10 months ago
Brain fart.
Boozilla@lemmy.world 10 months ago
CRS syndrome.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Sounds like it could be called “trivial pursuit”
nullPointer@programming.dev 10 months ago
“stubborn”
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is it
Overzeetop@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I was going to say “old age” but, yeah, stubborn is definitely the personality trait. :-)