"stubborn"
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2024
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I was going to say “old age” but, yeah, stubborn is definitely the personality trait. :-)
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.
Google translate says "Zungenspitze" is the German word for "tip of tongue".
I’d be surprised if there isn’t a German word for it
I think it's "tipphoffzetongue"
There isn't one in German.
I don't believe you.
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.
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
A couple of days...! I get annoyed after a couple of minutes, lol
it was definitely annoying that's for sure
Definitely the worst part of being a post rock fan, or I guess a fan of any instrumental music.
Generally it is literally called a “tip-of-the-tongue” state in psych literature. Presque vu is the “fancy” french term for it, and means almost seen, similar to deja vu (already seen).
E: as a sidenote, I am fairly sure Vsauce had a video on this.
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.
Yes I did see the irony at the time of writing
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?
Flitung
Something like onamanfuckmeah
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.
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.
Brain fart.
CRS syndrome.
Sounds like it could be called "trivial pursuit"