What word is on the tip of your tongue but you just can't think of it?
This oughtta be a short thread run...
Ammm, you know, what's that word for the condition of being unable to think of the word you're after?
Alzheimers?
uh... d... d...d...
argh.
If You Hadn't asked I would be able to tell ya !!!
Practically all of them, these days. I'm seriously frazzled.
"What word is on the tip of your tongue but you just can't think of it?"
[B]Clit?
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that one... you know, the one where the guy... and then the gal... and then the OTHER gal.... and they....
Yea, that word....about that place, with that guy, and that thing...with that other thing.
How can you possibly answer this question??
The word for thingumajig (or was it whatchamacallit)?
Two words actually:
The word for the body part at the end of my leg, towards the ground, I stand on it.
The next word is that word for the thing that lies between butt cheeks.
Anyone know these two items? :)
Exactly. The thing between two butt cheeks is sweat. How could I not think of that?!?
There is a word that describes the similarities of physical constructions (natural) that are duplicated in vastly different scales. Atoms with their shells of electrons and stars with planets, for instance. Or an arroyo in a cow pasture and the Grand Canyon. I wish I could read the tip of my tongue because that word is there, I just know it. :(
According to the Gospel of D.Adams the bead of sweat that runs down between a plump man's buttocks is an
elsrickle.
Sweetwater ... I know what you mean, that sort of thing is found widely, especially in fractal geometry. I don't recall having heard any particular word for it though. You should make one up: micro-resemblance; polyscalic similarity; dismensuric tropism....
It's the name of that guy...who was in that movie that was out last year...you know...HIM...
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I actually walked down the aisle here and asked my neighbor "what's that word where...." and his correct answer was "advocate".
I'll keep you posted on the next oneS. This happens to me all the time. Sometimes I'm able to answer my own question, sometimes not.
It's the name of that guy...who was in that movie that was out last year...you know...HIM...
Do you mean the guy that did that thing with the other thing and the other guy said something?
[URL="http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0003140/"]Low I.Q. Video Customer
: Do you have that one with that guy who was in that movie that was out last year? [/URL]
Do you mean the guy that did that thing with the other thing and the other guy said something?
Yes! Yes! Those are the one exactly!
Tha movie came out while I was serving time at Blockbuster. It was so ... ACCURATE.
sw: I know this isn't the term you're looking for, but
self-similarity has many of the same concepts. As does
scale invariance.
Yes! Yes! Those are the one exactly!
Sorry. Out of stock.
The not-secretary (she doesn't type, file, organize, or make coffee) at work got stuck on canoodling yesterday. I mean, she wasn't doing it at work, she couldn't recall the word. Once she came up with it out of the dusty reaches of her brain and announced her success, I had to offer a definition to another confused-looking cow orker.
I love that word... canoodling. It's just so fun to say :D
"Anecdotal" That word does not want to stay in my head.
Bizarrely enough one word I often struggle to find is ...fuck, no it's gone again. When you use someone, take advantage of them...wtf, how can i have forgotten that fucker again?
Heh. I have the same problem with the word asshole. But I seemed to have remembered it quite loudly at 6 this morning....:)
What I've been trying to remember for years is the name the french give to lambs brains when they serve them up at restaraunts.
If someone could help that'd be awesome.
Cervelle?
Mine's really bugging the shit out of me.
Ha! no it's not! I remember it!
Exploit *smiles*
Writing essays about early industrialisation and labour history it's a word I find myself reaching for from time to time...and I always have a problem
I think it starts with M or has M's in it. Cervelle isn't the word I've heard though.
I was just going to tell you yours was exploit. lol
Hmm. Actually I think cervelle might just mean lambs brains or something, rather than the name of a dish of lambs brains.
I'm sure if UG ever looks in here he'll be 'worldly' enough to tell me. lol
I just looked up the menu for a french restaraunt in Melbourne and it calls lambs brains 'cervelle'. So you're right Dana. I wonder if the word I'm thinking of is for a particular way of cooking them or something.
Now I guess I'll always wonder. Maybe the word I've been trying to remember just simply doesn't exist!
Dana, I thought you were looking for "capitalism"...
I forget the words "water fountain" on a regular basis, and end up saying something along the lines of: "You know, one of those things... and you press the... the bar, or sometimes it's a button, and water comes out and you drink it? And it's free? Free water-button-come-out-y-thing?"
"...You mean a water fountain?"
"YES."
We call them bubblers over here.
The name of the meat pies served by Mrs Whatsit -Sweeny Todd's partner in crime -the ones really made from Humans.... I'm thinking "Albanian Lamb" but that doesn't come up as a hit for that when I google it....
Anyone? Bueller?
not on the tip of my tongue, but bugging the hell out of me sometimes
I thought they were just called Mrs. Lovett's meat pies?:confused:
The worst pies in London...?
Ha! no it's not! I remember it!
Exploit *smiles*
Writing essays about early industrialisation and labour history it's a word I find myself reaching for from time to time...and I always have a problem
Sticky note on monitor.
That's where I keep anecdotal and orthogonal. They're quite useful words but I seem to have a hole in my brain where those words should go.
Last night...
"Pedometer" was the word. "Peter Meter" is what came out. :headshake
Last night...
"Pedometer" was the word. "Peter Meter" is what came out. :headshake
Well, they do say there is a relationship. foot size etc.
OMG. I kept forgetting that there was a word I was forgetting....Utter fail.
i think if you have a particular word that always eludes you, maybe it indicates a trauma or damage to the locale on the brain where that is stored. also, i visualize brain pathways like rivulets, so when you repeatedly go down the wrong track looking for a word, you are reinforcing that error each time. For a few years when i was a kid, i would think yellow, but say red. there is still an association in there, but ive gotten around it.
Orange you glad I didn't say banana?
how about the opposite of this effect. where you have a word stuck in your head that you keep chanting internally?
husquevarna
Well NOW I do. Or would if I could pronounce it.
That deserves it's own thread.
It's not a word per se, but I've always had trouble with the simple concept of left and right.
When I was learning my directions, I had a small scab on my right hand. I was given a helpful memory aid: "The hand with the boo-boo is 'right'."
You can guess what happened next: that's right, a small accident that left a scab on my left hand.
To this day, I get them mixed up.
Apex.
It's not a word per se, but I've always had trouble with the simple concept of left and right.
When I was learning my directions, I had a small scab on my right hand. I was given a helpful memory aid: "The hand with the boo-boo is 'right'."
You can guess what happened next: that's right, a small accident that left a scab on my left hand.
To this day, I get them mixed up.
My best mate from school always had the same difficulty. To this day she glances down to see which hand her rings are on when she's figuring which way to turn:P
over here, they teach the kids that the first finger and thumb on the left hand make an L. Apparently it has yet to occur to them that the kids who have difficulty with left and right are also the ones who can't remember which way an L goes.....
The L works for me. Mys sister uses passenger and driver. Neither of us have any issues with letters.
edit: I also always ask "my left or yours" to give me a sec to check for the L.
Reminds me of a helpful tip for setting the table if you can't remember where the silverware goes.
"Left" and "fork" both have the same number of letters
"Right," "knife," and "spoon" all have the same number of letters.
And that's where they go.
what about the sideplate?
Yeah, well it only works for those basic things. If you are having a state dinner, then it's best to consult a chart.
I've always thought one can overcomplicate nutrition...
actually, I find formal dinners rather fun. Place settings have always been a good way to individualize while still maintaining the air of decorum that goes with a formal meal. Plus... what woman DOESN'T like a chance to dress up??
Plus... what woman DOESN'T like a chance to dress up??
I'm not much of a dresser-upper...I like to look good, I like to put on nice clothes, but I don't do dressed-up. Not without a fight.
Reminds me of a helpful tip for setting the table if you can't remember where the silverware goes.
"Left" and "fork" both have the same number of letters
"Right," "knife," and "spoon" all have the same number of letters.
And that's where they go.
Or you could just remember that they're in alphabetical order.
The way we learned left/right was: if you are a righty, you write with your right hand.
The lefties used left is write.
Another L gimmick is the Less than math symbol, <, looks a bit like an L. Greater than becomes the other one: >.
Now that I think about it, those symbols likely have Official Names but I don't know what they might be.
The alligator eats the bigger number.
I can't believe that this otherwise intelligent group of people is having conversations about their inability to identify left from right. I am at a loss for works.
Where is LJ when you need him to make a snarky comment? :D
Well, that's kind of the point. It's not about intelligence it's about the manner in which our brains process certain types of information. It's also a common trait amongst dyslexics, as is confusion over quarter to and quarter past on a traditional clock face.
I can't believe that this otherwise intelligent group of people is having conversations about their inability to identify left from right. I am at a loss for works.
You were saying? ;)
Well, that's kind of the point. It's not about intelligence it's about the manner in which our brains process certain types of information. It's also a common trait amongst dyslexics, as is confusion over quarter to and quarter past on a traditional clock face.
So what you are saying is all you guys on this thread with the common confusion are dyslexic? WTF? Is this some kind of convention I have stumbled upon. Dyslexic Fourmites United? :D
So what you are saying is all you guys on this thread with the common confusion are dyslexic? WTF? Is this some kind of convention I have stumbled upon. Dyslexic Fourmites United? :D
That's Dyslexic Fourmites Untied, please.
I truly believe that my lack of sense of direction is a form of dyslexia. I'm not saying it is the conventional dyslexia, but there is something in the way our brain processes certain information.
I don't think any of us are asking for government aid, we are just saying we have to use different methods to arrive at the conclusion. Learning is just that: training your brain to think in a way that circumvents inadequacies in your own personal information processing.
It took me 4 days to figure out where my parking space was and how to get to it. Once I made a turn on a one way street and was going the wrong way, it was a lost cause. I finally just parked in paid parking so I could be on time for work. I don't enjoy getting lost...I just don't process direction.
My book is going to be called No Connection to Direction (thought of this years ago) and is not just about not knowing left from right, but the lifelong struggle for my raison d'etre. ;)
Dyslexia carries with it a range of possible traits and 'symptoms'. Each individual trait is not exclusive to dyslexics, it's the combination of a number of them, or the presence of a couple of specific ones that lead to a diagnosis of dyslexia.
No two brains work exactly alike. Most people have ideosyncracies and oddities in the way their brain processes certain types of information, which if they were to be combined with a few other traits wold be considered a form of dyslexia. I have a serious difficulty with spacial relationships. I have no sense of direction and have great diffulty with certain spacial concepts. I also have difficulty with numbers.
I am neither dyslexic nor unintelligent :P
I have dyscalculia. Tested and proved.
I have trouble with left and right and recognising faces as part of this (although I did not know this was considered as a flag for years, so it's not self-indulgence).
Again, I'm not asking for aid or sympathy, but I do hope my friends will be understanding. Don't just tell me your door number, describe your house. Don't say first right, next left, second right - say right after the pub, left at the house with the white fence etc etc
I make up rhymes and picture references for pin numbers, postcodes and other important things. I get by. I am not stupid and I have better spelling and grammar than anyone I work with.
So :frog:
I can't believe that this otherwise intelligent group of people is having conversations about their inability to identify left from right.
Also, I cannot arbitrarily tell you which direction (N/S,E/W) I am traveling down a certain road. All I
can tell you is that I have figured out how to get around my new town
much faster than my eagle-scout husband.
[SIZE=1][COLOR=Gray]I hate it when he tells me, "go west on Little Patuxant" or some such. Huh? Which friggin' way is "west"?[/COLOR][/SIZE]
When I was a little girl living in Colorado, I was told that "west" was the direction the mountains were in. When we moved to Chile, the mountains were suddenly east of our house, but I thought that direction was still called "west" and chalked it up to some southern hemisphere weirdness.
I have my own short comings but I have been blessed with an internal compass and the ability to retrace a route I have traveled only once before, even if it has been a year or more since I traveled it last. As a kid in Oklahoma we learned directions early as the Mid West was mapped out in mile sections, with cardinal directions at points of orientation. But then again it may be genetic, as my father and 2 of 3 brothers can do it but one brother and my sister never could, neither could my mother.
The alligator eats the bigger number.
At first I was like: :confused:
And then I: :D
I forgot all about the alligator. (One should never forget alligators, they can pop up in the unexpected places!)
I am pretty good with spatial stuff like packing up a truck with different sized boxes or packing a suitcase or planning the space for a company building (use to do this for a living.) I am also pretty good with faces, but cannot remember names...I repeat names in my head so I remember them, but I still usually forget. One thing that helps is seeing the name visually spelled out in my head. If I can do that, sometimes I remember. If it is a name written on a nametag, I don't have much of a problem.
I can be pretty good with directions, as long as I can see it on a map, first. If I can't see it, visually, though, I am not good at it. Like when someone gives you directions over the phone...I may as well not have directions at all. If I can mapquest it, I am good.
Choco, the mountains to the West have always helped me, too, having lived on the front range for a long time. Now that I live in the middle of the mountains things get all screwed up. In Kansas, I was totally clueless about directions.
My sense of time is really messed up, though. 5 hours can seem like 15 minutes to me. And I might really truly believe I have only been doing something for 15 minutes, until I look at a clock or something. I have a bad short term memory, so that doesn't help.
Words escape me, all the time. This is probably why I am not a very good writer...I don't think of things is terms of audible descriptions...I think of them as what they look like.
I have a diagnosis for you case: Painter. "Artist" also applies to this particular condition. I would have it checked if I were you. ;)
I'm bad at knowing people's names when they're in Halloween costumes. I'll probably go around all night trying to figure out which ones are Case and Mac Tire.
I can't believe that this otherwise intelligent group of people is having conversations about their inability to identify left from right. I am at a loss for works.
Where is LJ when you need him to make a snarky comment? :D
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: [calling out to platoon] Left shoulder, hut!
[Pyle accidentally puts his rifle on his right shoulder, then corrects quickly, but not before Hartman sees it. He walks up on him]
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Private Pyle, what are you trying to do to my beloved Corps?
Pvt. Pyle: Sir, I don't know, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: You are dumb, Private Pyle, but do you expect me to believe that you don't know left from right?
Pvt. Pyle: Sir, no, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Then you did that on purpose! You wanna be different!
Pvt. Pyle: Sir, no, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: [slaps Pyle hard on the left hand side of his face] What side was that, Private Pyle?
Pvt. Pyle: Sir, left side, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: [shouts] Are you sure, Private Pyle?
Pvt. Pyle: Sir, yes, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: [slaps him hard again, this time on right side of his face, knocking his hat off]
[shouts]
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: What side was that, Private Pyle?
Pvt. Pyle: [nearly in tears] Sir, right side, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Don't fuck with me again, Pyle! Pick up your fuckin' cover!
Pvt. Pyle: Sir, yes, sir!
Obligatory.
Haha so much for a short thread!
When I get one of those words and then think of it, I'll post.
By the way, i love reading posts in this forum.
:) I know I don't post much, but I'm here.
Watching... :|
Ablation. For some reason, whenever I NEED to use that word (talking to doctors, whatever), it never comes out. Which is frustrating. Because explaining the procedure takes ten TIMES as long as just using the stupid word.
Haha so much for a short thread!
When I get one of those words and then think of it, I'll post.
By the way, i love reading posts in this forum.
:) I know I don't post much, but I'm here.
Watching... :|
Ok, now you've gone and spooked LJ. He has a thing about lurkers.
:hide:
Ablation. For some reason, whenever I NEED to use that word (talking to doctors, whatever), it never comes out. Which is frustrating. Because explaining the procedure takes ten TIMES as long as just using the stupid word.
Uterine ablatioin? yep. How does it come out, wrong or you just can't say it?
I'm bad at knowing people's names when they're in Halloween costumes. I'll probably go around all night trying to figure out which ones are Case and Mac Tire.
I'll be the one in the bad wig. ;)
I just can't think of the flipping word. It's so frustrating. I mean, every day conversation (well... not that I talk about it every day, but you know what I mean), it's not an issue. I go to an ER and they ask when my last period was and I say "June" and they look at me funny and I go to explain... POOF. Word's gone.
How about the word for using a noun as a verb? There is a technical word for it, and I found it in a dictionary en route to looking up something else, never used it, and have now completely forgotten it.
Oh. One of my tutors has a cartoon about gerunds on his wall...
Oh wait, I've just read more closely--a gerund is using a verb as a noun (ending in -ing.) Using a noun as a verb is "verbing," according to Calvin and Hobbes.
a lot of the classical grammatical terminology has been abandoned by linguists now. The way it's looked at is different. The functions of words, what they do within a clause or sentence, what their function does to their form, are defined in a much more intuitive and practical way.
YOINK!
gonna swipe what Dana said for a paper...I WAS gonna use that "Conjunction-Juntion, what's your function?" song, but hers is better.
This question is my job description. Try working for an almost 70 year old attorney.......I spend my days playing charades trying to figure out just which file I need to get so he can call "that lady".....
Welcome to the Cellar, Short Bus! Yeah... I don't do this for a living, but it happens a LOT with the HouseMate... "Hey, wanna grab me that thing?" "What thing?" "You know, the thing I need for this weekend." "Honey, WHAT THING??" -description follows, ten minutes later I know what he's talking about...-
About 6 to 8 years ago there was a song used in the soundtrack of a movie about the American Civil War. I never caught the title but I wish I could find it.
The song had some pleasant male-voice singing, some good finger-picking guitar, and had lyrics along the lines of:
Coming home to you
coming home to you
Do you want me back?
should I pass on through?
coming home to you
Etc.
I've tried searching for "coming home to you" without luck. I think the band name had the word "white" in it, maybe white stripes, white monkeys, something like that.
Google has failed me.
Help me, Obi-cellar, you're my only hope.
The song is
Never Far Away, by
Jack White (of the
White Stripes), from the
soundtrack of the American Civil War film
Cold Mountain (2003).
Thank you NoBoxes!
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Welcome, Shortie.
What's a one-word description for a classroom-like teaching experience where someone you trust will present lectures and answer your questions on a given topic, without implying that that someone is a "true expert"?
Welcome, Shortie.
What's a one-word description for a classroom-like teaching experience where someone you trust will present lectures and answer your questions on a given topic, without implying that that someone is a "true expert"?
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David McCord (1897-1997)
What Cheer, 1945 - American poet, known especially for his poetry for children.For some reason, I tend to have a brain fart when trying to remember the word "articulate." Ironic, isn't it?
Does it matter if it's the verb or just the adjective?
What's that word that means.. hm..
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.
I forgot the word "oxymoron" yesterday. Damnit, this thread is catching.
That is a clear conundrum.
:lol:
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.
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:
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.
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...
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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....