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

    • Overzeetop@sopuli.xyz
      31·
      10 months ago

      I was going to say “old age” but, yeah, stubborn is definitely the personality trait. :-)

  • exixx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    10 months ago

    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
      1·
      10 months ago

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

        • chris@l.roofo.cc
          1·
          10 months ago

          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.

  • lobelia581@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    141·
    10 months ago

    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

  • DrRatso@lemmy.ml
    4·
    10 months ago

    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.