Emma @15: I was asking because it's an affliction my boyfriend suffers from. My father used to do it too. He would more often do it with our names; there were four of us kids and he'd usually just run through the first syllables of all our names before settling on one, which was usually the wrong one.
I don't recall any of my female relatives being particularly prone to it. Except perhaps my grandmothers, but not before either of them was about 80. My mother occasionally gestures vaguely and says "You know what I mean!" but not as often as my father.
folk@18: It's considered "speaking girl" to not know the names for things? How strange. I know sometimes, as a female, I feel that speaking too technically will make people think I'm a complete nerdy weirdo, so I'll deliberately avoid using the most technical term for an item, but I don't often give into that impulse now that I'm, well, old enough not to care anymore.
What I was referring to was when you know the word perfectly well, and you intend to use the proper word, but when you go to use the word, it's just not there.
There *must* be a word for that.
I am also the exact height to snag belt loops and, more annoyingly, the side pockets of my jeans on strike plates. I have actually torn belt loops off. I have also bent strike plates. I no longer have any strike plates on the interior doors in my house because I would rather the door rattles than I tear more of my pants or hurt myself when it yanks me so hard I fall down. (Also we were repainting so I had to take them of anyway and just didn't bother putting them back on. Useless things.)
I perpetually don't know what the word for things is. Is there a word for that? When you know what something's called but can't think of the word? There should be a word for it. I was using "aphasia" for a while but I know that means something else. (And I kept forgetting that word too.)
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