Once I tried to warn my mom about a giant centipede near her foot, but I forgot what centipedes were called, so I just yelled, "LOOK OUT FOR THE FUNKY DUDE!!!" while pointing at the centipede. It got her to look tho, so I guess it worked well enough!
Even if some of these are ridiculous I'm lowkey impressed that ppl can actually come up with names for the thing they forgot. Usually when I forget what things are called I just call them "uh um the uhhh you know the uh the thing"
@@Calypso-da-therianMaybe another language and they have a specific verb for closing their eyes, the same way we have a specific verb to close them and open them quickly (blink).
I once tried to ask someone if they played electric or acoustic guitar but forgot the words for both electric and acoustic and asked them with complete certainty if they played "metallic or organic guitar."
I once forgot what a fork was called, and just desperately insisted it wasn't a knife. I also saw a post that said, similar to this, someone who's native language was not English describe cutlery by saying "Give me the food weapons."
fun fact- the feeling of not quite being able to remember a word is called "presque vu" and the method of using other words to describe the word you can't remember is called "circumlocution"
We actually got a term for a long time in my language (quite commonly known, assuming it's uncommon in english because you said it as a fact). It's called "lapsus"
Reminds me of the time I forgot the word for "example" and spent five minutes trying to remember the word, so I searched up "synonyms for example" before going "Hey-"
About a month ago my friend forgot the word "kangaroos" and instead said "bouncy boys". The best part is we all knew exactly what he was talking about.
@@BinglesP the funny thing is, this friend never really talked about kangaroos before. I'm entirely not sure how we all immediately assumed he meant kangaroos, since there wasn't much context. But I absolutely agree, we all need a friend that talks about a particular animal all the time XD
My best friend once forgot the phrase "Calm before the storm" so she instead said, "Peace before the wild". It still cracks me up every time I remember it.
I remember reading a post about someone’s partner being French and forgetting what the lid of a pot was called. So the partner looked and pointed at the pot and said “His hat”. I honestly found that quite hilarious and kinda adorable.
It is actually quite common for a lot of French people to call all kinds of lids "chapeau" (hat), although you would never use it in serious writing. It's quite cultural and not everyone uses it.
I actually see the opposite vernacular used in English a lot where hats, but more commonly helmets, are called lids. The English and French really had no choice but to oppose one another huh?
I met this Italian guy once who spoke English and Italian fluently and one time he forgot the name for "bowl" in Italian and just kept pointing to a bowl making a "buh" sound and no one could understand him so he just yelled "HORIZONTAL CUP"
@@ambarcastaneda4763 we eat out of bowls using *tinier bowls* Even crazier: pots and pans are also bowls on sticks. Which means that they are in fact really large spoons.
@@crazycreaturestudios Probably would have worked better, but I was in the mode of: "Oh, they ordered a meal, so I need to ask about a beverage." So it was the first word that came to mind, lol.
once read a story of a man checking into a hotel (he’s chinese, and not a fluent english speaker) and his room had a rat. he forgot the english word for rat, so he told them “do you know tom and jerry? jerry is here.” fake or not I think about that a lot 💀
Proud to say I once forgot the name for a hose and called it something along the lines of "Gardening water tube thing that's sometimes green" I also often forget the words for "hungry" or "thirsty", but then I remember this meme I saw a couple years ago of people calling it "food thirsty" and "water hungry", and it always helps me remember somehow
My mom is a German teacher for refugees who come to Germany and one time a guy in her class needed to buy frozen chicken but couldn't find it at the grocery store. So he took an egg, walked up to a cashier, held it in their face and asked "where's mom?"
@@ihavenodesiretocreateahandle if i was your mom i would have just like, straight up died there. Like i'd just wheeze until my lungs come out of my mouth and just fucking die on the floor and it will be worth it
All of these are better than what my mom does. She calls everything she can’t recall “the thing” and sends me to grab it. She then gets upset when I have no clue what she is talking about and can’t describe it in anyway that helps narrow it down. She also has a tendency to send me looking for things that don’t exist or happen to be stored no where near where she said they would be.
When I was in high school I helped my dad build a barn. Any time he said "get me the straightedge", he could have been referring to anything from a carpenter's square, to a piece of 2x4, to a hammer, and I had to know which one he meant or he'd get cross with me. This happened at least five times a day.
We call ours the, and I quote, the "chh chh." We spray our cats with it when they misbehave. Now when we see the little demons on the counter, we just say "chh chh" and off they are. One was eating me as I typed this...
I once forgot the word "dishwasher" and had to google "'washing machine for cutlery". Pretty simple but I like it a lot. Also forgot "dehydrated" and my brain could only give me "unwatered". "Text shortcuts" when I meant "abbreviations" happened too.
as an American I'd say the base Majority of American would be "comic sans" just in different colors to denote regional accents (:: Though the south would definitely be wing dings. Can barely understand some of those folks o.o
Non-natives forget the silliest stuff. I forgot the word for tub and called it "washing tube", in an english test. Friend forgot the word for "door", called it "entering wall".
It is very common for me to forget words in my native language, Swedish, but remember them in English. It's gotten to the point where my thoughts are in English too.
I was at a natural history museum here in Switzerland and learned that Europe’s version of a great horned owl is called “le grand duc” in French and “uhu” in German 😂😂😂
I was on a date with a guy one time and we were speaking Spanish but I didn’t know the word for cow so I just called it a “milk horse” and he absolutely lost it laughing
@@埊 And thank RWAW for not only making the Dimensional Doors game but also the Blue And Red Gun Game. Edit: Also forgot to mention a special thanks for them for making the classic really well received Man Half Living Because of Ailens. Edit 2: Accidentally made 2 replies because this one got deleted then came back(?) some how.
I once forgot what “procrastination” was while describing to a teacher why i didn’t get something done, and I said something along the lines of “the Eh I’ll Do It Later thing”
I remember trying to tell my doctor that my shoulder blade hurt back when I was 16. But I realized I had never heard of the word shoulder blade in my life. So I looked her dead in the eye, with my mom in the room. And said in all serious tone "My chicken wing hurts." She stared at me dumbfounded trying to find out what the heck I just said.
A core memory that haunts me, when I was around 3-4 years old I didn't know the what toast was called, so asked my grandmother for some "warm spiky bread". The worst part, she had no idea what I was asking for and I never did get that toast.
I was explaining to someone why I couldn’t wear my chest binder for longer than 8 hours a day + why I can’t do PE in it and I forgot the word for ribcage so I just kinda went: “Yeah, I can’t wear it for too long or exercise in it, it’s really bad for my.... my chest bones.”
I forgot what drum sticks were, and I was about to describe them to google to find out. But I described them as drum sticks and halfway through typing it I had an existential crisis
Years and years ago, I remember seeing a post on tumblr where someone's friend-who was an international student-wanted some fruit, so he called a pear "a pear" and called an apple "the pear's friend". I loved it.
Bro how the heck would a non-native learn the word for pear before the word for apple, apples are literally the most famous fruit and they're in all sorts of language text books and are one of the most famous portable objects ever probably, I mean heck, one of the world's biggest companies is literally named Apple
“Help my dad forgot the name for bread so called it _raw toast_ “ “I got high and forgot what toast was and called it _crunchy bread_ “ *”And kids, that’s how I met your mother”*
I once forgot the word "fishing" and said something along the lines of "you know, the thing where you get the fish with the stick" my dad stared at me silently for a good 10 seconds...
I once forgot what a can was and called it a “tin jar” The worst part is that I was convinced there was another name for can, when I was talking about a can of soup. It felt as if I once lived in a universe where a can was called something else, and there had been a sort of glitch in the matrix. It felt so distantly real. It still does.
Well, you were close. If you can't find a word for something, you find the closest substitute. Koko the gorilla didn't know the word for "ring", so she signed "finger" and "bracelet".
@@0_dearghealach_083 Koko the gorilla kinda couldn't actually talk, and Soup Emporium made a really informative piece explaining it if you're interested. I reccomed reading the pinned comment before watching it if you choose to do so, because he lays out relevand disclaimers. That said, it's actually really sad how awfully Koko was treated, and a lot of it ended up being more for media attention than anything else, with a lot of bad research practices being employed. I'd definitely say it's worth a watch.
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Just today I forgot the word for "feast" and called it "doing supper" I also speak German as my second language and once forgot the name for a leaf (Blatt) and so called it a "Tree feather" (Baumfeder) On the flip side, a German friend once forgot the name for silverware and instead called it "attack the food", then corrected himself to "food weapons"
@@googleyoflolz9930 I know right? When I started learning, it suddenly seemed like everyone on the internet speaks German and the only reason most of the internet is in English is because it was invented in English 😂
A close friend of mine was playing a game where you guess a word from a definition and she got "hive" She KNEW the word was hive but could not pull it from her brain so instead she slammed her hands on the table, rattling the glasses and putting out two of the candles, and declared, "BEE BOX."
These are always pretty funny but the thought of someone doing it with that amount of energy and power behind it just reached a new level of funny for me
Once forgot “lamp post” so I called it “vertical friend” A friend called a pasture a “horse pit.” Same guy also said “today is hedgehog day for white people.” He was talking about groundhog day
@@googleyoflolz9930 so the friend is Asian and didn’t celebrate groundhog day so he forgot what it was called. He just considered it a white people thing lmao
@@Otakupatriot117 In China they celebrate dragons, which aren't even real, that's one example from one race who aren't white. Everyone has strange traditions, just be respectful. Nor are hedgehogs rodents.
I forgot was a car was called and called it a “land vessel”, then within a minute I forgot what a boat was called and I called it a god damn “water vehicle”.
my mother awhile back tried to say she had good people skills, but couldn't remember that particular turn of phrase. so her brain suggested that she had "human powers."
Crying laughing at this. I forget words and have to substitute them on a daily basis, which is very silly because when _other_ people forget words I turn into a walking thesaurus. But no, I walk into the kitchen and open the "cold box" to see if we have any "meat stripes" to have for "morning food time."
I'm a non-native English speaker, and once I forgot what a flashlight/torch was called. My brain instantly panicked and I blurt out "handlamp". I still feel slightly ashamed.
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I aided in some kindergarten classes once. It was the beginning of the day and the children were helping the teacher write the date on the board. We came to the comma in between the day and the year, and this one kid had raised his hand and was trying SO HARD to remember what it was called and just blurted out, "It's a lowercase apostrophe!" XD I was just impressed he remembered the word for apostrophe! :D
*I always forget the word “Washing Machine” so I ask “Did you put my pants in the dishwasher?” a lot of times to my family members, and their always like “I…dishwasher…?”* *I also read a jellybean package as the every flavor jellybeans from Harry Potter, I don’t even know how I did, but I did.*
One time I had to tell someone my diagnosis after visiting a psychologist. I was thinking of ADHD but ended up stuttering out "Hysterical brain??" And I said it like a question. Good job me really out did yourself there lol
When my youngest brother was like 3 years old we moved into a house that had a big air conditioner on one of the living room windows, and my brother knew it blew cold air, but no one bothered to explain to him what it was called, so one summer day he toddled up to me and asked if I wanted to go sit in front of the ''windy fence'' with him Bonus, he once called a dish sprayer a ''shower gun'' and that's become part of my vocab now
a similar occurrence: i forgot what the french word for slug is while trying to tell the waiter that there was a slug in my salad, so I simply described it as an ‘escargot sans la maison’
Forgetting everyday words is much more common of an issue when you're a polyglot like me (I speak Russian, English, German and Esperanto). It happens because your brain stores several words for the same thing, and all of them are from different languages, so it spends some time looking for one that is compatable with the language you speak in right now. I forgot a word "sudden" once. Said "plötzlich" instead, and then proceeded to explain the meaning of this word for half a minute. Also I forgot the word "nobody" once when I was drunk, said "unwho" instead, and this word turned out to be so hilarious, that it became a meme among our group of friends.
That's really cool that you know all those languages! I'm currently learning german because I watch a lot of war movies and just movies in general with nazis in them and I'm learning russian because I have a friend who's russian. Can't wait when this starts happening to me 😅
Was going to say the same! I speak Finnish-French-English daily, Finnish being my native and strongest. When I forget a word in one language I automatically very badly translate from another which has led to "Arch in the sky" (rainbow, fr->eng), "shield frog" (turtle, fin-eng) and many, many others 🫠
This is my constant mood at work. Once forgot the name for washing machine and called it a "Washy washy tumble boy". I have also forgot the name of a food probe to many times that i now just call it the "Sexy Stick"
Idk why but my brain just sang that first one to the tune of The Andrews Sisters, lol somewhere along the lines of “he’s the washy washy tumble boy from…”
bandits of the woods actually sounds like a cool name for an 1910-1920's criminal gang that pratically besieges small cities by blocking all roads out of the city
I once forgot the name for paradox for a whole day and it was really bugging me so I kept asking people "what's the name for.. you know... a logical loop?"
Matt always brings up some of my best memories. My sister sprained her wrist, but when she was talking to our mother forgot the word for "wrist." Instead? "My ... arm ankle hurts."
I had to resort to calling appetizers "tutorial food", so I ain't judging.
Gamer moment
So the main meal is the main quest, and the dessert is endgame content?
*what's the final boss?*
@@StuffandThings_Unlimited wings
@@chunkymonkey7983 You defeat it, and your prize is diabetes
i couldn't think of "lactose intolerant" once and said milkphobic and my family laughed at me :)
holy 😭
NO NOT MILKPHOBIC
EW MILKPHOBE OUT IN THE WILD!
guess im milkphobic now
i think you need some exposure therapy to cure that phobia
I once forgot the word for “lowercase” so I just ended up saying “uncapital”
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skullemoji
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I've said little letters hahaha
Once I tried to warn my mom about a giant centipede near her foot, but I forgot what centipedes were called, so I just yelled, "LOOK OUT FOR THE FUNKY DUDE!!!" while pointing at the centipede. It got her to look tho, so I guess it worked well enough!
They are indeed funky dudes lol
Imagine if people heard that.
IM GONNA PISS MYSELELELEKEGEFEEDDEEFFSSFSFHSSJSJS
Weird comparison, but this reminds me of left 4 dead 2 characters calling zombies GREEN GUY and GOITER MAN
That made me imagine a tiny man dressed as a centipede dancing
I forgot the word for dementia, and had been calling it "memory loss deluxe" for three whole days before I was corrected.
LMAO WHAT
So what would Alzheimer be, Memory Loss Platinum?
paper on the roll slowly fades away
New super memory loss deluxe! Only on Nintendo switch
@@nintenvlogz plus ultra new dlc with more mem loss!! LITERALLY NINTENDO SWITCH MEMORY LOSS IT REMOVES DATA
i once forgot the word for “exit” and the word “entrance” was fresh in my memory.. i called it a “out-trance”
There is actually extrance as a word for that
Why does that sound so cool-
@@clovermoon3322 it does sound very cool
same
@@thatsamood let's make outrance the official word for exit
Even if some of these are ridiculous I'm lowkey impressed that ppl can actually come up with names for the thing they forgot. Usually when I forget what things are called I just call them "uh um the uhhh you know the uh the thing"
Hello Joe Biden, how are you today? Have you had a nice nap in that bush in the flower garden?
Same. I've always been kind of envious of people who can at least come up with a weird synonym or even a halfway sensible description.
i usually never forget the name of an item but some of the stuff i seen i wish i could forget
*horrible bowling flashbacks*
@@Soul.Resonant STFU STFU STFU STFU STFU STFU DON'T RE-AWAKEN THAT REPRESSED MEMORY IN THE BAT OF MY MIND
@@Soul.Resonant STRIKE!
I was tryna tell some kids to close their eyes but forgot how to say that phrase for whatever reason and I was just like "Blink... long"
HOW DO YOU FORGET THAT!?
@@Calypso-da-therianMaybe another language and they have a specific verb for closing their eyes, the same way we have a specific verb to close them and open them quickly (blink).
Blink single = Wink
I was trying to think of the word for lower back or small of the back and ended up saying "my little back hurts"
I once tried to ask someone if they played electric or acoustic guitar but forgot the words for both electric and acoustic and asked them with complete certainty if they played "metallic or organic guitar."
If I remember correctly, acoustic guitars tend to be made of wood, which is organic, so you’re not wrong
Lol, I love "organic guitar". Think I might use that
Brutal
i only eat organic guitars because i don't want the gmos the government puts in metallic guitars 😌
lmao do you mind if I borrow these?
I once forgot what a fork was called, and just desperately insisted it wasn't a knife. I also saw a post that said, similar to this, someone who's native language was not English describe cutlery by saying "Give me the food weapons."
the thing that makes things cold
the fridge...
German?
The lunchtime armaments
the organic matter consumption tools
@@galatians51 the stab spoon 😈
fun fact- the feeling of not quite being able to remember a word is called "presque vu" and the method of using other words to describe the word you can't remember is called "circumlocution"
“presque vu” sounds very strange with an english accent tbh skull emoji 💀
Huh, I wonder if there’s a word to remember presque vu if you forgot it
@@higgsboston6727 presque vu squared
circumsise that word for me
We actually got a term for a long time in my language (quite commonly known, assuming it's uncommon in english because you said it as a fact). It's called "lapsus"
Reminds me of the time I forgot the word for "example" and spent five minutes trying to remember the word, so I searched up "synonyms for example" before going "Hey-"
Example might be example😲
I once called a kazoo a “bee infested whistle” whilst trying to buy one in order to show my friend who didn’t know what one was.
you what
bet u cant swear on your mums life
I mean your not wrong?.... They kind of do sound like bees.
You’re totally right to call it that 🤣
_musical beehive_
I once forgot the term "socially awkward" and instead referred to someone as "socially constipated"
I mean it’s kind of the Same thing
😭😭
I mean 🤷🏻♀️
I am inlove with this comment
As someone who is socially awkward, “socially constipated” is accurate
About a month ago my friend forgot the word "kangaroos" and instead said "bouncy boys". The best part is we all knew exactly what he was talking about.
Need myself a friend who regularly talks about certain animals so much that even if they forget their name occasionally we know what they mean
@@BinglesP the funny thing is, this friend never really talked about kangaroos before. I'm entirely not sure how we all immediately assumed he meant kangaroos, since there wasn't much context. But I absolutely agree, we all need a friend that talks about a particular animal all the time XD
I'm gonna take a wild guess and say you must be Australian
@@poihpioakarp8845 American, unfortunately 😔
I love bouncy bois
i once called dehydration “starving but the water version”
Help😭
😭
water starvation
@@KompridiCR isn't that like waterboarding?
Wait that doesn't make sense why did I say waterboarding
My best friend once forgot the phrase "Calm before the storm" so she instead said, "Peace before the wild". It still cracks me up every time I remember it.
That's kinda cool sounding!
"Time out before the rumble""
"Silence before the violence"
she is not wrong
@@TheRadioknight the comment literally said she and you still called her a he 💀
I once forgot what a seal was called in english and described it as a "toothpaste shaped dolphin dog"
This is one of the funniest ones I've seen omg. I almost want to use that now
Technically you're right
true tho
HUH?
Shrek being summertime Grinch is just so perfect. i'll call him that from now on
How about "The Good Ogre"?
Tbh calling accents voice font is genius, never would have thought of it myself, but makes so much sense
I remember reading a post about someone’s partner being French and forgetting what the lid of a pot was called.
So the partner looked and pointed at the pot and said “His hat”.
I honestly found that quite hilarious and kinda adorable.
It is actually quite common for a lot of French people to call all kinds of lids "chapeau" (hat), although you would never use it in serious writing. It's quite cultural and not everyone uses it.
I remember seeing that too! To this day, I *still* call pot lids their little hats
I actually see the opposite vernacular used in English a lot where hats, but more commonly helmets, are called lids.
The English and French really had no choice but to oppose one another huh?
That's adorable!
Im french and i never heard someone call it that
"Walter's World" sounds like a spin-off of Breaking Bad that's an educational cartoon that teaches kids about chemistry.
na na, na na! na na, na na! *WALTER'S WORLD!!!*
Breaking Bad in the director style of Wayne's World
PBS Kids presents: Walter's World
I'd make my child watch it if I had one.
@@lazerstudios9982 Walter's World, a sister show of the popular Elmo's World.
I was thinking it sounds like a Where's Waldo spinoff.
I met this Italian guy once who spoke English and Italian fluently and one time he forgot the name for "bowl" in Italian and just kept pointing to a bowl making a "buh" sound and no one could understand him so he just yelled "HORIZONTAL CUP"
Something that my mom pointed out to me today is that a spoon is just a tiny bowls on a stick.
@@Null-value woah
@@ambarcastaneda4763 we eat out of bowls using *tinier bowls*
Even crazier: pots and pans are also bowls on sticks. Which means that they are in fact really large spoons.
Why did I do angry hand gestures when I read the "HORIZONTAL CUP" ?
Man I didn't know that italians moving their hands was contagious
@@Null-value id argue most spoons are more saucer-like tbh
My friend forgot Stephen Hawkins name the other day and called him “smart magic chair man” and I immediately understood him.
Reminds me of how whenever I forget Kenneth Branagh's name while talking to my mom, I just call him, "Mr. Good-at-Shakespeare."
never forget that one time someone forgot/didn't know the word for pony and called it a "compressed horse"
LMFAO 💀
pretty accurate. everyone knows babies are just compressed adults.
Ah yes, my favorite show: My Little Compressed Horse
This is actually accurate. Ponies are just smaller adult horses, so they aren't wrong.
@@spyritsolz you just ended the video
Once, at work, I forgot the word for "dressing", like the kind on salads. So I asked a guest what salad beverage they wanted
I woulda said salad sauce lmao 🤣
@@crazycreaturestudios Probably would have worked better, but I was in the mode of: "Oh, they ordered a meal, so I need to ask about a beverage." So it was the first word that came to mind, lol.
I'm amazed more waiter/tress/ don't do this. It's such a brain-numbing job, even when you work somewhere that doesn't treat you like garbage.
Better than me: I said ‘hey dad, do you want any salad clothes on your salad?’
We still joke about that to this day!
@@evacochran4229 *S A L A D C L O T H E S*
I AM *D Y I N G* LOL
one time while driving with my friends i forgot the colour "beige" existed and called the colour of the car next to us "dirty champaine" lmao
🤣
Arguably better imo, lmao
Ahh yes, a new Pantone color. 🤣
*flesh color*
definitely sounds like a color. apparently its also a band name i think? I never heard of them before this
I forgot the word pillow at a sleepover once and called it a “fluffy night time head rest” 💀💀💀💀
SKUHUUUULLL EMOJIIII8
My mum was once talking about planes, and forgot the words “pilot” and “co-pilot”. Instead, she called the the “flyer” and “deputy flyer”.
Hah! You fly-boys crack me up!
Best one I've read yet
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your moms version of pilots are better.
I forgot the word for anniversary so I called it a "wedding birthday"
once read a story of a man checking into a hotel (he’s chinese, and not a fluent english speaker) and his room had a rat. he forgot the english word for rat, so he told them “do you know tom and jerry? jerry is here.”
fake or not I think about that a lot 💀
LOOOOOOOOOL
My mom used to tell me this story often as a joke, and apparently according to her, it worked...
gigachad
jisoo from blackpink? i've heard of her doing the same exact thing
I love that lol
One time I asked my friend for some “germ blastin’ hand juice” when I forgot the name for hand sanitizer.
i’m gonna start using that
hnad snatizizer 👍
Sounds better than hand sanitizer in my opinion
This could be made into a funny hand sanitizer commercial 😂
Yeah, at least this one *sounds* deliberate.
Proud to say I once forgot the name for a hose and called it something along the lines of "Gardening water tube thing that's sometimes green"
I also often forget the words for "hungry" or "thirsty", but then I remember this meme I saw a couple years ago of people calling it "food thirsty" and "water hungry", and it always helps me remember somehow
i once forgot what traditional and digital drawings were called and said "online or offline drawing"... my arts teacher still doesnt let me forget it
I once heard "analog art" used to describe traditional art
Nah I do Organic and Many Pixles art
I do online and moving art
I'm dead😂😂
💀💀
My mom is a German teacher for refugees who come to Germany and one time a guy in her class needed to buy frozen chicken but couldn't find it at the grocery store. So he took an egg, walked up to a cashier, held it in their face and asked "where's mom?"
@JayLeeBeanz huh I guess I or my mom could have misrembered something. I'll ask her about it.
This killed me. I just died laughing while my dog stared at me, wondering what the fuck was wrong with me.
@JayLeeBeanz perhaps the guy had heard the joke and applied the logic to his situation
@JayLeeBeanz I feel like these stories just happen pretty often with people learning new languages.
I've heard this story before
One time I forgot the name “acrylic” so I called them, “prosthetic” and said to my sister, “I really like your prosthetic nails!” I’m done 💀
Technically true, which is the best kind of true!
SKUHULLLL EMOOOJIII
@@ihavenodesiretocreateahandle I mean... Dogs and cats get prosthetic balls if the get really upset about them... 😂
@@TitularHeroine - Exactly. If anything, it's _more_ descriptive (and covers gel nails as well).
@@ihavenodesiretocreateahandle if i was your mom i would have just like, straight up died there. Like i'd just wheeze until my lungs come out of my mouth and just fucking die on the floor and it will be worth it
My mom once forgot what an ironing board is called and instead called it a “laundry table”. My family still calls it that to this day!
All of these are better than what my mom does. She calls everything she can’t recall “the thing” and sends me to grab it. She then gets upset when I have no clue what she is talking about and can’t describe it in anyway that helps narrow it down. She also has a tendency to send me looking for things that don’t exist or happen to be stored no where near where she said they would be.
Hispanic moms be like
That's just how it is
When I was in high school I helped my dad build a barn. Any time he said "get me the straightedge", he could have been referring to anything from a carpenter's square, to a piece of 2x4, to a hammer, and I had to know which one he meant or he'd get cross with me. This happened at least five times a day.
Yo! Sammmmeeee.
The just how Hispanic moms are mines the exact same
I once forgot the word "Spray bottle" so I called it a "Squirt squirt" and now it's a running gag in the family
I didnt know it was possible to turn into a fricking pokemon, damn
S q u i r t S q u i r t
We call ours the, and I quote, the "chh chh." We spray our cats with it when they misbehave. Now when we see the little demons on the counter, we just say "chh chh" and off they are. One was eating me as I typed this...
I once also forgot the word for spray bottle (like for cleaning) and called it a "counter gun"
In my family we've always called that a "pshit pshit"
My child asked me for a hot dog cake pop once. Took me a bit to realize he wanted a corn dog.
Ok, I’m so fucking stupid!! That had me laughing so hard I started crying!!
"Cake pops" are an abomination that never needed to exist. Fittingly, I have no idea how to explain why, but I can't stand the entire concept of them.
I once forgot the word "dishwasher" and had to google "'washing machine for cutlery". Pretty simple but I like it a lot.
Also forgot "dehydrated" and my brain could only give me "unwatered".
"Text shortcuts" when I meant "abbreviations" happened too.
Calling an accent a "voice font" is surprisingly accurate when you think about it, but I wonder what accent would be what font.
Stereotypical American is Calibri while stereotypical British is Times New Roman
@@YataTheFifteenth lies and slander, stereotypical American would be comic sans.
German is caveat
as an American I'd say the base Majority of American would be "comic sans" just in different colors to denote regional accents (:: Though the south would definitely be wing dings. Can barely understand some of those folks o.o
@@D7STOPIAN no that's just brooklyn
Non-natives forget the silliest stuff. I forgot the word for tub and called it "washing tube", in an english test.
Friend forgot the word for "door", called it "entering wall".
wall entrance
I'm a Native English speaker and it's embarrassing how often I forget to speak in my own language.
It is very common for me to forget words in my native language, Swedish, but remember them in English. It's gotten to the point where my thoughts are in English too.
@@jorvach9874 have had that happen too many times
@JayLeeBeanz spin wall
I remember someone forgot what a owl was called and called it "a hooter", and now I can't stop laughing.
hooter has a scooter and is going to commit school shooter
Guess you could say you were hooting with laughter
Well, that's where the word comes from, so you weren't wrong, just about 300 years out of date.
@rosekitten6248 cyan
I was at a natural history museum here in Switzerland and learned that Europe’s version of a great horned owl is called “le grand duc” in French and “uhu” in German 😂😂😂
I’ve had two terrible circumstances of this. Once I just repeatedly called a pine cone an acorn, the other I called a astronaut a ‘space knight’.
terrible? did you mean, TERRIFIC??!
One time I forgot what a ceiling fan was called, so instead I called it a ceiling blender and acted like that’s what I always called it
If you ever get suddenly turned in gravity for 180 degrees, it will be exactly that.
@@EatAnOctorok oh god
I was on a date with a guy one time and we were speaking Spanish but I didn’t know the word for cow so I just called it a “milk horse” and he absolutely lost it laughing
"Milk horse" Goodness gracious AHAHHAAHA
caballo de leche ☠️
Pffftt-
What would you call a zebra, then?
A horse from the 60s black and white era.
I once called steam from my toaster “bread humidity.” Like I legitimately forgot the word steam existed
"i downloaded a game from bread humidity"
@@raidaridi5375 My favorite gaming platform is Bread Humidity, thanks Red Water Activating Wheel for making it exist!
@@pawprint1 And thank the RWAW for making the Dimensional Doors game making it exist
@@埊 And thank RWAW for not only making the Dimensional Doors game but also the Blue And Red Gun Game.
Edit: Also forgot to mention a special thanks for them for making the classic really well received Man Half Living Because of Ailens.
Edit 2: Accidentally made 2 replies because this one got deleted then came back(?) some how.
@@pawprint1 Not to forget the free-to-play head covering simulator Group Castle 2!
My sister managed to forget both the word "Cemetary" and "Graveyard" and ended up pointing out the car window and going "That's a big coffin park"
Bahahahaha
I once forgot what “procrastination” was while describing to a teacher why i didn’t get something done, and I said something along the lines of “the Eh I’ll Do It Later thing”
That’s exactly what procrastination is tho
"Eh, I'll remember it later"
Could have been worse. You could be me and have said "pro-castration" instead 😔
@@Fumbann LMFAOOO
My cousin forgot the word "dragonfly" and called them "tiny bug helicopters" and recently I forgot the word "book" so I said "word collage"
dragonflies always reminded me of helicopters :)
I remember watching an r/kidsarestupid vid, and this little kid called a dragonfly a ‘baby helicopter’. It was the cutest thing ever, lol.
@@thediscodevil0949 AWWE
@@c0zmozys :D
I mean dragonflies only use their legs for standing and picking things up so you're kinda right
I remember trying to tell my doctor that my shoulder blade hurt back when I was 16. But I realized I had never heard of the word shoulder blade in my life. So I looked her dead in the eye, with my mom in the room. And said in all serious tone "My chicken wing hurts."
She stared at me dumbfounded trying to find out what the heck I just said.
"My chicken wing"🤣
Pray tell, how did you go sixteen years of your life having never heard the term shoulder blade??
@@Lillyluvsanime perhaps the American education system?
The fact that you were 16 💀
@@Lillyluvsanime i am almost sixteen and didn’t know that was a word until now..
A core memory that haunts me, when I was around 3-4 years old I didn't know the what toast was called, so asked my grandmother for some "warm spiky bread". The worst part, she had no idea what I was asking for and I never did get that toast.
I remember not knowing what an ambulance is as a 6 year old and called it "The hospital car" lmao
Thats what it is tho
I mean you weren't wrong
You weren't wrong \_(シ)_/
@@AlterEgoCole i think it's more of a taxi
@@bunnybunsbunny Especially in America!
I one time forgot the name of a wrist and called it an "arm elbow," forgetting that elbows are also on your arm
You probably presque vued twice, forgetting not only the word "wrist" but the word "ankle"
Don't worry I called thighs "up shins" for like a week straight
@@sleepyhead1707 A WEEK?!
@@purpleweirdothecutie it was closer to 2 ngl
I *do* like the sound of "Dumbledore's university castle."
Sounds like the name of a whimsical cartoon.
please do *not* make dumbledore's university castle, I beg of you.
I was explaining to someone why I couldn’t wear my chest binder for longer than 8 hours a day + why I can’t do PE in it and I forgot the word for ribcage so I just kinda went:
“Yeah, I can’t wear it for too long or exercise in it, it’s really bad for my....
my chest bones.”
Eh, good enough
I forgot what drum sticks were, and I was about to describe them to google to find out. But I described them as drum sticks and halfway through typing it I had an existential crisis
"What are drum sticks called-? Oh..."
Basically the equivalent of a 404 error for me.
That's like the word equivalent of turning on your phone flashlight to look for your phone.
@@megaturtle9547 Basically the exact thought process
Once I said “what game is doom guy from?” And I felt the same
Okay, but why does “dragon shrimp” sound like it could be an actual name for a shrimp species?
because it is a popular recipe that uses shrimp
There is a dragon shrimp, miropandalus hardingi. It looks spikey.
Dragonshrimp is just the chinese name for lobsters
Sounds like the type of animal name that has two or more words describing it but it technically isn't either/any/all of them(i.e. Zebra Turkeyfish)
@@BinglesP Or sea horses?
Seriously, dragon shrimp is way better, and I'm probably going to call them that from now on.
Years and years ago, I remember seeing a post on tumblr where someone's friend-who was an international student-wanted some fruit, so he called a pear "a pear" and called an apple "the pear's friend". I loved it.
Aww
I remember it the other way around
HEY APPLE HEY PEAR
@@MuffinTastic shut up
Bro how the heck would a non-native learn the word for pear before the word for apple, apples are literally the most famous fruit and they're in all sorts of language text books and are one of the most famous portable objects ever probably, I mean heck, one of the world's biggest companies is literally named Apple
I once forgot the word for scissors. Called them cutting utensils while doing a cutting motion with my fingers.
“Help my dad forgot the name for bread so called it _raw toast_ “
“I got high and forgot what toast was and called it _crunchy bread_ “
*”And kids, that’s how I met your mother”*
One evening I saw a big moth fluttering around but I forgot what they were called and yelled out "a night butterfly!"
Shutterfly
Well technically they are so you're not wrong.
@@TheRealFrozenFire moths are basically the less cool versions of butterflies lmfao, they're pretty related
@JakePlaysGamRee1 moths are WAY cooler than butterflies
@kikkeliaivo I didn't know that before, and I'm glad I do now!
once i forgot the word "bladder" and ended up calling it a "piss pocket". now it's a running gag in the family and i love it
piss pocket!
XD i cant even
I once forgot the word "fishing" and said something along the lines of "you know, the thing where you get the fish with the stick" my dad stared at me silently for a good 10 seconds...
I once forgot what a can was and called it a “tin jar”
The worst part is that I was convinced there was another name for can, when I was talking about a can of soup. It felt as if I once lived in a universe where a can was called something else, and there had been a sort of glitch in the matrix. It felt so distantly real. It still does.
In some other English speaking countries we call it a tin, so you're not entirely wrong
Well, you were close. If you can't find a word for something, you find the closest substitute.
Koko the gorilla didn't know the word for "ring", so she signed "finger" and "bracelet".
I’ve had that happen with a few things - it’s so discombobulating!
I had the same same experience for the word "soon"
@@0_dearghealach_083 Koko the gorilla kinda couldn't actually talk, and Soup Emporium made a really informative piece explaining it if you're interested. I reccomed reading the pinned comment before watching it if you choose to do so, because he lays out relevand disclaimers. That said, it's actually really sad how awfully Koko was treated, and a lot of it ended up being more for media attention than anything else, with a lot of bad research practices being employed. I'd definitely say it's worth a watch.
THIS IS WAY FUNNIER THAN IT SHOULD BE AND THE WAY HE SAYS EMOJIS AND KEYBOARD SMASHES KILLS ME😭💀
FRR😭
*S K U L L E M O J I*
SAME
🚨🚨🚨 AAAAAAHHHHH!!! 🚨🚨🚨 school is sooooo boring i am in 8th grate and its so boring i am having sucess on youtube so i think i will drop out of school. i dont have friends so i need your opinon defr
@@AxxLAfrikustay in school, you don't need to go to college, but in case you need a side job you will be glad that you decided to stay in school.
I honestly commend these people for forgetting what something is called, and giving said thing a cooler name. It's not only funny, but interesting.
Dunkin’ Sexy Bagels would be the new name of Dunkin’ Donuts going off of if all of them were better
_Bandits of the Woods_
screwdriver gun is definitely the coolest.
"Horny but like, for food" is just.... *Chef's kiss*
I dropped a tortellini, forgot the word trash, and somehow ended up asking where the escaped tortellini jail was.
Just today I forgot the word for "feast" and called it "doing supper"
I also speak German as my second language and once forgot the name for a leaf (Blatt) and so called it a "Tree feather" (Baumfeder)
On the flip side, a German friend once forgot the name for silverware and instead called it "attack the food", then corrected himself to "food weapons"
ATTACK THE FOOD
And so, the revolution began…
attack on food
I can't believe I'm finding so many germans and german speakers here 👀I just recently started learning about a month ago! :D
@@googleyoflolz9930 I know right? When I started learning, it suddenly seemed like everyone on the internet speaks German and the only reason most of the internet is in English is because it was invented in English 😂
my friend was trying to say she didn't want to adopt children but couldn't put it into words so she just said "i want the kids to be handmade"
Kid named finger 🗿
She doesn't want any factory children filled with processed ingredients.
@@OzCroc *processed lungs*
@@OzCroc *processed bones*
@@OzCroc *processed brains*
I forgot what mozzarella sticks were called so now my family won't forget "Cheese lengths"
That sounds so British
once before i forgot the name of chocolate milk and called it "brown juice" 💀
So liquid sh*t 💀💀💀
A close friend of mine was playing a game where you guess a word from a definition and she got "hive"
She KNEW the word was hive but could not pull it from her brain so instead she slammed her hands on the table, rattling the glasses and putting out two of the candles, and declared, "BEE BOX."
I always found it strange that manmade hives and natural hives share the same word when they look so different. Bee box is a better name really
These are always pretty funny but the thought of someone doing it with that amount of energy and power behind it just reached a new level of funny for me
did she win?
i sure hope so
@@iwikal Manmade hives *are* called bee boxes, at least where I live
Once forgot “lamp post” so I called it “vertical friend”
A friend called a pasture a “horse pit.” Same guy also said “today is hedgehog day for white people.” He was talking about groundhog day
Hedgehog day for white people?! Ayo wtf
@@googleyoflolz9930 so the friend is Asian and didn’t celebrate groundhog day so he forgot what it was called. He just considered it a white people thing lmao
oh lol 😂
@@Astrologus-Auctrix Well, he's not wrong. What other race would have such a silly yet obtuse tradition?
@@Otakupatriot117 In China they celebrate dragons, which aren't even real, that's one example from one race who aren't white. Everyone has strange traditions, just be respectful.
Nor are hedgehogs rodents.
I forgot was a car was called and called it a “land vessel”, then within a minute I forgot what a boat was called and I called it a god damn “water vehicle”.
Would’ve been way funnier if you called it a “water land vessel”
"LAND SHIP!"
"Land vessel" sounds a lot cooler than "car."
hello, fellow AI 😂
Convertibles are technically land boats.
my mother awhile back tried to say she had good people skills, but couldn't remember that particular turn of phrase.
so her brain suggested that she had "human powers."
I once forgot what storks are called so I said "look, a utility pole swan" as we were driving past a stork nest
🤣 I just can't
This made my day
called one a 'baby grabber'
I will now refer to cranes as that if I can thanks to you
My brother once forgot the name of Darth Vader and called him “not my father”.
Yeah, I’m disowning him.
i'dve called darth vader "Uhh that black helmet dude with the jetstream sam sword"
"Y'know that guy who isn't my dad?"
*"...Who?"*
@@spyritsolz No not who I'm talking about not my father!
Ohhh, yeah, 99.9% of the population?
@@spyritsolz One down, and only 7 billion other possible people to go.
Crying laughing at this. I forget words and have to substitute them on a daily basis, which is very silly because when _other_ people forget words I turn into a walking thesaurus. But no, I walk into the kitchen and open the "cold box" to see if we have any "meat stripes" to have for "morning food time."
fridge, bacon, breakfast?
I’m the same way😅
what if you forget the substitute word, and have to create a substitute for the substitute?
What if you unremember the alternate say-thing, and have to manufacture an alternate for the alternate?
@@litterpicker1431what if u forget the alternative to the alternative and gotta make up ANOTHER alternative for your forgotten alternative words
I forgot the word "vowels" once. I had to ask my six year old brother what the word was for "even letters"
i am screenshotting this comment
I'm a non-native English speaker, and once I forgot what a flashlight/torch was called. My brain instantly panicked and I blurt out "handlamp".
I still feel slightly ashamed.
@JayLeeBeanz yes,A torch burns,As in like a flaming stick,I will never understand why others call a flashlight that
Handlamp sounds to me like what they carried in Star Tre (especially TNG) instead of flashlights.
@@Mephiles343 Well, torches are a stick of light, so are flashlights.
My most iconic moment was forgetting the word for screaming and instead said “child noise”
Just accidentally forgot the name for double doors and asked my father, “Why are you opening the both doors?” and he looked at me confused 💀
Can I look at your confused
@@bombyman84 It's the skull emoji that was confused, clearly
I bet your confused was cute
Can you show us your confused
Yeah your confused S K U L L E M O J I
After op edited: For anyone looking "confused" at the reply section bcz it doesn't make sense the original comment said _my confused 💀_
I once forgot what a billboard was called, so I had to look up “big signs on the road”.
My favorite brainfart was forgetting the word Feather and calling it a Bird Leaf. I now deliberately call them that.
are you related to the other commenter who once called leaves "tree feathers" 😂
@@ConiferConnieTreeCow LOL! No, but I should be! We'd fit right in with each other!
That would make skin the bark and bones the wood.
@@duck7078 and possibly the egg being a sapling
I have a pet bird in my house. When one of her bird leaves fell off, I kept it and started using it as a bookmark for whatever book I read.
two weeks ago my dad forgot the word 'beer' and he called them 'yellow fizzy drink that makes you dizzy' still makes me crack up
The fizzy make you dizzy!
Drink fizzy, get dizzy
Piss that tastes good?
Yellow fizzy, make ya dizzy! rhyme gawd
yellow fizzy dizzies
noice
I aided in some kindergarten classes once. It was the beginning of the day and the children were helping the teacher write the date on the board. We came to the comma in between the day and the year, and this one kid had raised his hand and was trying SO HARD to remember what it was called and just blurted out, "It's a lowercase apostrophe!" XD I was just impressed he remembered the word for apostrophe! :D
Hes Not Wrong
I constantly forget the word for apostrophe, I think I've called it a "flying comma" or something like that before (probably multiple times)
@@taliesinriver That Makes Sense
@@taliesinriver kinda sounds like some futuristic vehicle
apostrophe? more like “Dialogue brackets”-
*I always forget the word “Washing Machine” so I ask “Did you put my pants in the dishwasher?” a lot of times to my family members, and their always like “I…dishwasher…?”*
*I also read a jellybean package as the every flavor jellybeans from Harry Potter, I don’t even know how I did, but I did.*
forgot the word for an octopus while talking to a friend, in an attempt to explain i just said 'you know, legs'
they do be havin legs
Legfish
You know,
L
E
G
S
L e g s
*L E G S *
One time I had to tell someone my diagnosis after visiting a psychologist. I was thinking of ADHD but ended up stuttering out "Hysterical brain??" And I said it like a question. Good job me really out did yourself there lol
💀
How can you think of hysterical brain,but not ADHD..
@@mystic_topaz6783 Because of the ADHD.
When my youngest brother was like 3 years old we moved into a house that had a big air conditioner on one of the living room windows, and my brother knew it blew cold air, but no one bothered to explain to him what it was called, so one summer day he toddled up to me and asked if I wanted to go sit in front of the ''windy fence'' with him
Bonus, he once called a dish sprayer a ''shower gun'' and that's become part of my vocab now
a similar occurrence: i forgot what the french word for slug is while trying to tell the waiter that there was a slug in my salad, so I simply described it as an ‘escargot sans la maison’
This is glorious 😂
Forgetting everyday words is much more common of an issue when you're a polyglot like me (I speak Russian, English, German and Esperanto). It happens because your brain stores several words for the same thing, and all of them are from different languages, so it spends some time looking for one that is compatable with the language you speak in right now.
I forgot a word "sudden" once. Said "plötzlich" instead, and then proceeded to explain the meaning of this word for half a minute.
Also I forgot the word "nobody" once when I was drunk, said "unwho" instead, and this word turned out to be so hilarious, that it became a meme among our group of friends.
"unwho" is cool lol.
I could see how “никто” (no who) could start you down the path towards unwho xD
Fuck you * unwho's your Doctor Who *
That's really cool that you know all those languages! I'm currently learning german because I watch a lot of war movies and just movies in general with nazis in them and I'm learning russian because I have a friend who's russian. Can't wait when this starts happening to me 😅
Was going to say the same! I speak Finnish-French-English daily, Finnish being my native and strongest. When I forget a word in one language I automatically very badly translate from another which has led to "Arch in the sky" (rainbow, fr->eng), "shield frog" (turtle, fin-eng) and many, many others 🫠
one time i forgot the word jester and said "funny man to the king" and still somehow managed to get my point across
“He couldn’t remember Shrek’s name (Shrek)”
wow incredibly useful parentheticals thank you
This is my constant mood at work. Once forgot the name for washing machine and called it a "Washy washy tumble boy". I have also forgot the name of a food probe to many times that i now just call it the "Sexy Stick"
Okay, the first one made sense. Not so sure about the second.
Poky?
Idk why but my brain just sang that first one to the tune of The Andrews Sisters, lol somewhere along the lines of “he’s the washy washy tumble boy from…”
@@spugintrntl tells you if food is hot, ergo it detects the sexy. Sexy stick
Your names for these things, holy sh7t. /pos
bandits of the woods actually sounds like a cool name for an 1910-1920's criminal gang that pratically besieges small cities by blocking all roads out of the city
I once forgot the name for paradox for a whole day and it was really bugging me so I kept asking people "what's the name for.. you know... a logical loop?"
Ah yes the famous Doctor Who Inspired character
Professor Logical Loop
@@InnocentBiscuitBoy Someone has probably made a terrible Doctor Who ripoff with that character in it.
@@laughsingay I was making a reference to Professor Paradox from Ben 10 but I see what you're saying
My mother once forgot the word for stationery and called it "Teacher Cutlery"
Matt always brings up some of my best memories. My sister sprained her wrist, but when she was talking to our mother forgot the word for "wrist." Instead? "My ... arm ankle hurts."