Looking it up just kinda feels like cheating, y’know? Or at least throwing in the towel.

  • exixx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    6 个月前

    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.

    • jasep@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 个月前

      Google translate says “Zungenspitze” is the German word for “tip of tongue”.

        • chris@l.roofo.cc
          4·
          6 个月前

          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.

          • blazeknave@lemmy.world
            3·
            6 个月前

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

            • chris@l.roofo.cc
              7·
              6 个月前

              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.

              • blazeknave@lemmy.world
                1·
                6 个月前

                We’re best friends now. Do another one: “when an Internet stranger connects with you over an infinitesimally small and unlikely shared idea or experience, and for the first time in your life, you don’t feel alone on an earth with 7 billion humans, and you have a best friend”

  • lobelia581@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    191·
    6 个月前

    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

    • Sigh_Bafanada@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 个月前

      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”

  • fidodo@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 个月前

    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?

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 个月前

    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.

  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 个月前

    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
      3·
      6 个月前

      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
        3·
        6 个月前

        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