HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-210 months agoYou 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.message-squaremessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up12file-text
arrow-up12message-squareYou 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 to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-210 months agomessage-square2fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareexixx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoThere’s probably a word for it in German or Swedish. I bet it’s long and hard to pronounce, maybe with a non-English pronunciation symbol.
minus-squarejasep@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoGoogle translate says “Zungenspitze” is the German word for “tip of tongue”.
There’s probably a word for it in German or Swedish. I bet it’s long and hard to pronounce, maybe with a non-English pronunciation symbol.
Google translate says “Zungenspitze” is the German word for “tip of tongue”.