The Cellar - What word is on the tip of your tongue but you just can't think of it?

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What's that word that means.. hm..

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot (Post 503305)

Does it matter if it's the verb or just the adjective?

Usually the adjective!

Now that you mention it..... I need to say..............
forget it. I can't remember.:rolleyes:

I forgot the word "oxymoron" yesterday. Damnit, this thread is catching.

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Originally Posted by Pie (Post 503864)

I forgot the word "oxymoron" yesterday. Damnit, this thread is catching.

That is a clear conundrum.
:lol:

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 503916)

That is a clear conundrum.
:lol:

A womb with a view?:neutral:

What's the word for a brand name used as a generic name? For example, Kleenex for tissue or Jello for gelatin.

a genericized trademark also sometimes known as a proprietary eponym.

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Terminology

The terms genericide and genericized trademark are not technical terms. Alternative terms have been suggested by various commentators, such as the judge in Plasticolor Molded Products v. Ford Motor Company, who called genericide a malapropism and suggested genericization or trademarkicide,[13] a member of Cecil Adams's contributing board who suggested brand eponym in The Straight Dope Mailbag,[14] and others who have suggested proprietary eponym. However, to date only genericide has been used in legal literature.[15]

Thanks glatt. That deserves its own thread.

There are a ton of them. Aspirin is probably the most commonly used one that used to be trademarked but no longer is because it became genericized. Bayer owned that trademark many years ago.

Photoshop is on the way, I think.

I still 'hoover' my living room, rather than vacuum it.

Coke. I hate it when the waitress asks if Pepsi is OK. Damn it...

I thought this was interesting:

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The tip of the tongue (TOT or Tot) phenomenon is an instance of knowing something that cannot immediately be recalled. TOT is an experience with memory recollection involving difficulty retrieving a well-known word or familiar name. When experiencing TOT, people feel that the blocked word is on the verge of being recovered. Despite failure in finding the word, people have the feeling that the blocked word is figuratively "on the tip of the tongue." Inaccessibility and the sense of imminence are two key features of an operational definition of TOTs (A.S. Brown, 1991).

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Universality

Cognitive psychologist Bennett Schwartz examined fifty-one languages and found that forty-five of them include expressions using the word tongue to describe the TOT state. Some languages use multiple metaphors. In Korean, the metaphor "going round and round at the end of the tongue" is used, as well as "caught in the throat." French speakers use the "tongue" metaphor. In some languages, tongue is often replaced by lip, "I got it (the word) right on my lips", the concept remaining identical, and having an obvious relation to the tongue. The results of the language survey suggest that the use of the "tongue" metaphor is not idiomatic to English but instead a commonality of the TOT phenomenon. Research involving diaries kept of TOT experiences show that college students have approximately one or two TOTs per week, while elderly adults have about two to four TOTs per week (Schacter, 2001). TOTs occur most frequently for names of people, but for common words as well.

JE-sus Chr..., chr...chr...aw heck, what's that word? It's on the tip of my spork.

Chrome.

Jesus Chrome.

I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything... I would have ruined one of my monitors! :p

Funny - I just did a search for Jesus Chrome. Lots of hits.

That was really interesting! Thanks so much for that.

felching...

Sorry. I just grossed myself out. Eww

I got stuck on polymorphus perversity the other day ... not wanting to do it, it's the name of an important scientific journal, and I just plain couldn't think of it.

Had to google for the name of one of the articles.

Polymorphous perversity ... not quite a band name, but a good album title

......or a very interesting character from the Wild West....