You know when something's on the tip of your tongue and — as frustrating as it is — you'd prefer to try and think of it rather than look it up? There should be a word for that.

@HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world · edit-2 10 months ago

You know when something's on the tip of your tongue and — as frustrating as it is — you'd prefer to try and think of it rather than look it up? There should be a word for that.

@chris@l.roofo.cc · 10 months ago

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 · 10 months ago

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”