I always forget refactoring, as in code refactoring, and fiber.
I was going to answer this but I can’t remember.
Same here, I have that same word on the tip of my tongue and can’t remember it either.
When to use “i.e.” versus “e.g.”. I have to think through the full Latin phrases every time.
My mnemonic is “for eggsample.”
I use “in essence” for i.e.
Example given
my mnemonics are:
e.g. = egxample, i.e. = in eother wordsI do, too, but that’s remembering, not forgetting.
I think writers and readers both stumble over them. I avoid both altogether these days.
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. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_purism_in_English. E.g. (lol), saying birdlore instead of ornithology, and bendsome instead of flexible.
Everyone’s names.
me too, uh… ulysses bankster five.
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
For the people who hadn’t heard of it (like me): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
I have ADHD, so pretty much every word when I need it most.
Ifyp scatterbrained to all hell
this implies one. all sorts of words the moment I need them.
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.
Ostention, which I occasionally use in its folkloric sense, is one that I can hardly ever bring to mind at the critical moment.
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.
Funny you should ask. And that’s the thing, I can’t remember.
Defenestration
Gets me every time I need it…
ma ja pa hit
Mahajapit ❌
Majahapit ❌
Mapajahit ❌
Mahapajit ❌
Mahajapit ❌
Ma-ja-pa-hit?✅☑️✅☑️✅
oh, um… shit, it’s right on the tip of my tongue…
I forgot. 🤷🏻♂️
Empathy and sympathy. I know they are different, and I know how they are different, but I always forget which is which.
