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21 People Who Forgot A Word And Just Made Some Shit Up

im crying

a friend of mine forgot the word “lamp” once and said “light faucet”

I’m shaking from laughter. Yes, this is the right way to start a Friday morning.

Listen guys, I have a BA in English and an MA in Professional Writing and I have:

Forgotten the word “gums” and called them “teeth cuticles”
Forgotten the term “liquor store” and called it a “rum-o-rama”
Forgotten the word “mohawk” and called it a “head mustache”

The list goes on and on. Wording is HARD. 

You know that putty you put in holes before you paint a wall? I forgot the word “putty,” called it “hole-be-gone” instead, and now my whole family refers to it as hole-be-gone.

it’s hard to make the brain do the english, ok!?

I wish I had this skill.
When I lose a word, my brain derails. I use the term ‘derail’ because it is the mental equivalent of a train derailment (just easier to clean up)

At the staff meeting, my boss referred to the clipboard as “that snappy board”

My 4-year-old nephew didn’t know the word “knuckle” so he told us his finger knee hurt.

@parisdortdanslenoire arm corner

I had a French-Canadian friend who couldn’t remember the word for “feet” so they said “leg hands” and couldn’t remember eyes so said “seeing balls”

My German friend didn’t know how to say that the container holding her lasagna had leaked, so she said “the box drooled”

German for slug is “Nacktschnecke” (naked snail) so “Schnecke ohne Hause” (snail without house) is logical enough. After all, this is a language where gloves are “Handschuhe” and a bra is a “Büstenhalter” (though not a Titzling; if the place with the frequently-stolen signs is anything to go by, that’s more likely to be a town in Austria…)

I have the reverse happening to me in my native tongue. I often forget that we call spatulas a “frying shovel” in Swedish -_- my boyfriend teases me for it while cooking