orbital,
@orbital@infosec.pub avatar

I was going to answer this but I can’t remember.

A_A,
@A_A@lemmy.world avatar

Same here, I have that same word on the tip of my tongue and can’t remember it either.

Vanth,
@Vanth@reddthat.com avatar

When to use “i.e.” versus “e.g.”. I have to think through the full Latin phrases every time.

commie,

I do, too, but that’s remembering, not forgetting.

andrew,
@andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun avatar

My mnemonic is “for eggsample.”

quotheraven404,

I use “in essence” for i.e.

tomi000,

Example given

xor,

my mnemonics are:
e.g. = egxample, i.e. = in eother words

lars,

I think writers and readers both stumble over them. I avoid both altogether these days.

Vanth,
@Vanth@reddthat.com avatar

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. …m.wikipedia.org/…/Linguistic_purism_in_English. E.g. (lol), saying birdlore instead of ornithology, and bendsome instead of flexible.

Usernameblankface,
@Usernameblankface@lemmy.world avatar

Everyone’s names.

HipsterTenZero,
@HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone avatar

me too, uh… ulysses bankster five.

muninn,
@muninn@dmv.social avatar

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

itsralC,

For the people who hadn’t heard of it (like me): en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

Zozano,

I have ADHD, so pretty much every word when I need it most.

squid_slime,
@squid_slime@lemmy.world avatar

Ifyp scatterbrained to all hell

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

I forgot. 🤷🏻‍♂️

funnystuff97,

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.

Golfnbrew,

Defenestration

Gets me every time I need it…

GreyShuck,
@GreyShuck@feddit.uk avatar

Ostention, which I occasionally use in its folkloric sense, is one that I can hardly ever bring to mind at the critical moment.

Witchfire,
@Witchfire@lemmy.world avatar

I forgot

peached_whale,

ma ja pa hit

Wilzax,

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Ma-ja-pa-hit?

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gregorum,

oh, um… shit, it’s right on the tip of my tongue…

Bishma, (edited )
@Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

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.

ohlaph,

Funny you should ask. And that’s the thing, I can’t remember.

waz,

Empathy and sympathy. I know they are different, and I know how they are different, but I always forget which is which.

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