30 People Share Their Brainfart Moments Where They Failed To Remember A Basic Word

In German, gloves are called "hand-shoes"

not before you eat you really really wet salad

Ba dum...tssss!

Yes, that is called "code-switching" and it's very usual among polyglots. It definitely happens to my siblings and I and our partners, since we all speak roughly the same languages, so whenever we are in conversation we might change from one language to another without pause whenever we can't find our words.

4 languages here and constantly switching languages for the word I wanna say but forgot in the first language. Luckily my German teacher also spoke Spanish, Italian and English

I have seen this before also. It's clear at this point that different brains configure themselves differently. It makes one wonder just how different what goes on inside each of us is. After all, if we say "apple" we all know what we're talking about, but is it the exact same thing we're picturing? My guess is we all have slightly different notions of what "apple" is that get conjured up when the word is spoken (in my case it's the classic "granny Smith" green apple). And if we can't even agree in our minds over something as simple as an apple, I can't even begin to comprehend on what gets conjured when someone talks about an abstract notion like "courage" or "friendship"... The fact that we've somehow managed to make it work trough language - and across different languages - , is frankly, amazing.

I do that too. Six languages here, and it can be the most mundane word that is suddenly NOT THERE in any language, and then if I manage to find it in one, I'll have it back in the one I'm looking for it in. When I am speaking with other people who I know are very comfortable with at least a couple of languages and the atmosphere is relaxed and laidback, then I may just let the word hop out of my mouth in the language it surfaces first.

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Good luck! I always thought I was doing good with three ^-^

Or simply be raised in a multi-lingual environment and go to different schools. The fact I'm good at picking up languages also helped. My parents both speak French English and a bit of German, and I grew up reading a French comic book magazine my dad had a subscription to, so I could say I learned French first. When I went to school I was taught English until 3rd grade, then we moved and the new school taught German. In Highschool I went back to English and I also took up French and at college I finally took up Italian, which I had spoken after a fashion because I why growing up I was watching cartoons on Italian TV (yaay for satellites) and the language it's close enough to my native Romanian for me to pick up "on the fly". Currently I'm trying to expand my horizons by learning Russian and Spanish.

Be born in one country, raised in another, lern in school no 3, live as adult in another different country. Or you could start in country 1 but have parents from 2 and 3, who speak with you their own languages. As a child/ baby you learn like a sponge. AND it helps with more languages to come.

Do you think that is because you have aspergers? I would rather think that that is the predominant mode of thinking, before we put words on our thoughts.

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