I was going to answer this but I can't remember.
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Same here, I have that same word on the tip of my tongue and can't remember it either.
When to use "i.e." versus "e.g.". I have to think through the full Latin phrases every time.
My mnemonic is "for eggsample."
I use "in essence" for i.e.
Example given
my mnemonics are:
e.g. = egxample, i.e. = in eother words
I do, too, but that's remembering, not forgetting.
I think writers and readers both stumble over them. I avoid both altogether these days.
That's fair. Had an opportunity to use "e.g." today but just said "for example" instead.
I had another interesting one. Reviewing a document someone else wrote that said an old thing was "grandfathered" in and the document didn't apply to it. A Chinese-american coworker (who has been speaking English for decades) didn't know that one, "grandfathered". Another unnecessary term when "previously approved" or "previously authorized" would be so much clearer.
This is all reminding me of a Wikipedia article I stumbled on ages ago about people who want English kept "pure" to Germanic and early modern English roots. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_purism_in_English. E.g. (lol), saying birdlore instead of ornithology, and bendsome instead of flexible.
Everyone's names.
me too, uh.. ulysses bankster five.
The phrase "Baader-Meinhof effect"
I love pointing out examples of it but always forget the name, leading to an awkward moment when I try to explain it
I have ADHD, so pretty much every word when I need it most.
Ifyp scatterbrained to all hell
this implies one. all sorts of words the moment I need them.
I have no idea why, but convention. And not a thing where nerds like me gather to dork out about something, but a scientific standard. Whenever I'm explaining something, and someone asks why it operates that way, I'm always like, "it's that way by.... uh... y'know, it's always been that way." No clue why I always blank on that word specifically.
deflagration
I had to look it up for this post. My brain's inability to recall the word for detonation velocities lower than the speed of sound wasn't an issue until rotating detonation engines started to make news and I've needed to explain the difference between explosions and deflagrations to people.
Ostention, which I occasionally use in its folkloric sense, is one that I can hardly ever bring to mind at the critical moment.
I forgot. 🤷🏻♂️
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Funny you should ask. And that's the thing, I can't remember.
oh, um... shit, it's right on the tip of my tongue...
Defenestration
Gets me every time I need it...
Empathy and sympathy. I know they are different, and I know how they are different, but I always forget which is which.
"Idiomatic" and "Wirth's Law"/"May's Law" come to mind.
Of course now I have no problem bringing them to mind.
callipygian
Effect/affect
I forgot
The one that means:
When you find unexpected good fortune.
I always remember the word "providence" when I mean the other one, without the religious connotation. Like kismet.
It's Serendipity btw.
I'm better at writing than talking because it takes me so long to think of so many words.
today I paused for 30 seconds trying to remember "second line of defense,"
and paused again for a really long time trying to remember what this thing is called I plug my phone into recharge when I'm traveling, oh yeah it's called a "power bank."
Ladle. Big soup scoopy thing. Never remember this word. Terribly specific.
I think I prefer "soupy scoopy" over "ladle" now
I am very thesaurus-minded and express myself precisely when possible, so I don't have any words I just forget, but once in a while I might not be able to find a word that embodies what I'm trying to get across, which is always frustrating as someone whose first language does have an equivalent to the missing word in question.