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 6 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 · 6 months ago

There isn’t one in German.

CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world · 6 months ago

I don’t believe you.

chris@l.roofo.cc · 6 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.