Twitter forgetting the names of everyday things

Be sure to, oh what's that CZcams expression again, "Enjoy and Enrol"?

[@milennia_kunt]

I had to resort to calling appetizers "tutorial food", so I ain't judging.

[@lazerstudios9982]

Gamer moment

[@BlueLiminality]

So the main meal is the main quest, and the dessert is endgame content?

[@StuffandThings_]

*what's the final boss?*

[@chunkymonkey7983]

@@StuffandThings_Unlimited wings

[@StuffandThings_]

@@chunkymonkey7983 You defeat it, and your prize is diabetes

[@kishii7527]

i couldn't think of "lactose intolerant" once and said milkphobic and my family laughed at me :)

[@tacohead8543]

holy 😭

[@spyritsolz]

NO NOT MILKPHOBIC

[@pawprint1]

EW MILKPHOBE OUT IN THE WILD!

[@realdonutking123]

guess im milkphobic now

[@TheFlyfly]

i think you need some exposure therapy to cure that phobia

[@ddcreativeideas6115]

I remember someone forgot what a owl was called and called it "a hooter", and now I can't stop laughing.

[@the_guy_who_sucks]

hooter has a scooter and is going to commit school shooter

[@TheDigitalWeirdo]

Guess you could say you were hooting with laughter

[@RFC-3514]

Well, that's where the word comes from, so you weren't wrong, just about 300 years out of date.

[@lindseybrant7624]

@rosekitten6248 cyan

[@heatherduke7703]

I was at a natural history museum here in Switzerland and learned that Europe’s version of a great horned owl is called “le grand duc” in French and “uhu” in German 😂😂😂

[@hoppybirdy6967]

Once I tried to warn my mom about a giant centipede near her foot, but I forgot what centipedes were called, so I just yelled, "LOOK OUT FOR THE FUNKY DUDE!!!" while pointing at the centipede. It got her to look tho, so I guess it worked well enough!

[@Fluffymintthecat]

They are indeed funky dudes lol

[@Kirby666.]

Imagine if people heard that.

[@lylyart]

IM GONNA PISS MYSELELELEKEGEFEEDDEEFFSSFSFHSSJSJS

[@Karaemu]

Even if some of these are ridiculous I'm lowkey impressed that ppl can actually come up with names for the thing they forgot. Usually when I forget what things are called I just call them "uh um the uhhh you know the uh the thing"

[@coultersheppard2052]

Hello Joe Biden, how are you today? Have you had a nice nap in that bush in the flower garden?

[@NoriMori1992]

Same. I've always been kind of envious of people who can at least come up with a weird synonym or even a halfway sensible description.

[@Soul.Resonant]

i usually never forget the name of an item but some of the stuff i seen i wish i could forget
*horrible bowling flashbacks*

[@moistoyst3187]

@@Soul.Resonant STFU STFU STFU STFU STFU STFU DON'T RE-AWAKEN THAT REPRESSED MEMORY IN THE BAT OF MY MIND

[@kemmli]

@@Soul.Resonant STRIKE!

[@justagamblingraccoon]

I once forgot the word for “lowercase” so I just ended up saying “uncapital”

[@Strauberry69]

💀

[@TheRealFrozenFire]

💀

[@tacohead8543]

skullemoji

[@megaturtle9547]

i forgor 💀

[@bladeofSteele]

I've said little letters hahaha

[@BitofaDumbAsh]

I was tryna tell some kids to close their eyes but forgot how to say that phrase for whatever reason and I was just like "Blink... long"

[@MrNO-ql1me]

HOW DO YOU FORGET THAT!?

[@martina6700]

​@@MrNO-ql1meMaybe another language and they have a specific verb for closing their eyes, the same way we have a specific verb to close them and open them quickly (blink).

[@Roberto_Steele]

Blink single = Wink

[@scuzzellbutt]

I was trying to think of the word for lower back or small of the back and ended up saying "my little back hurts"

[@xXJaneRoseXx]

I forgot was a car was called and called it a “land vessel”, then within a minute I forgot what a boat was called and I called it a god damn “water vehicle”.

[@HungryWarden]

Would’ve been way funnier if you called it a “water land vessel”

[@mixymaxymash7805]

I once tried to ask someone if they played electric or acoustic guitar but forgot the words for both electric and acoustic and asked them with complete certainty if they played "metallic or organic guitar."

[@daniellewilson8527]

If I remember correctly, acoustic guitars tend to be made of wood, which is organic, so you’re not wrong

[@kodschiec5614]

Lol, I love "organic guitar". Think I might use that

[@eneco3965]

Brutal

[@doplop]

i only eat organic guitars because i don't want the gmos the government puts in metallic guitars 😌

[@LinktheHylianChampion117]

lmao do you mind if I borrow these?

[@sarahbums]

fun fact- the feeling of not quite being able to remember a word is called "presque vu" and the method of using other words to describe the word you can't remember is called "circumlocution"

[@aydenator2770]

“presque vu” sounds very strange with an english accent tbh skull emoji 💀

[@higgsboston6727]

Huh, I wonder if there’s a word to remember presque vu if you forgot it

[@prodbykaji]

@@higgsboston6727 presque vu squared

[@prodbykaji]

circumsise that word for me

[@imadoge5036]

We actually got a term for a long time in my language (quite commonly known, assuming it's uncommon in english because you said it as a fact). It's called "lapsus"

[@AshiaOc]

I forgot the word pillow at a sleepover once and called it a “fluffy night time head rest” 💀💀💀💀

[@buttercuptuxie]

SKUHUUUULLL EMOJIIII8

[@laughsingay]

I once forgot the name for paradox for a whole day and it was really bugging me so I kept asking people "what's the name for.. you know... a logical loop?"

[@InnocentBiscuitBoy]

Ah yes the famous Doctor Who Inspired character
Professor Logical Loop

[@laughsingay]

@@InnocentBiscuitBoy Someone has probably made a terrible Doctor Who ripoff with that character in it.

[@InnocentBiscuitBoy]

@@laughsingay I was making a reference to Professor Paradox from Ben 10 but I see what you're saying

[@cadetspades]

My best friend once forgot the phrase "Calm before the storm" so she instead said, "Peace before the wild". It still cracks me up every time I remember it.

[@AngelBien]

That's kinda cool sounding!

[@Iku00]

"Time out before the rumble""

[@scythal]

"Silence before the violence"

[@TheRadioknight]

she is not wrong

[@kuromistan645]

@@TheRadioknight the comment literally said she and you still called her a he 💀

[@para5694]

I forgot the word for dementia, and had been calling it "memory loss deluxe" for three whole days before I was corrected.

[@mobilemadison2932]

LMAO WHAT

[@chinsaw2727]

Wait, three whole days? How often do you use the word dementia?

[@Damian_1989]

So what would Alzheimer be, Memory Loss Platinum?

[@twilightwolfpiano]

paper on the roll slowly fades away

[@nintenvlogz]

New super memory loss deluxe! Only on Nintendo switch

[@Zacskostely]

Tbh calling accents voice font is genius, never would have thought of it myself, but makes so much sense

[@sakurafalls2468]

My friend and I are Dutch and she forgot the English word 'mushrooms'. In our language it's the same as the French word 'champignons', so she asked the waiter if her pizza had 'champions' in it. I've never seen a waiter look so confused lol.

[@spacenaves]

wait, do they not have the word champignons? always thought it was meant to describe a specific breed of mushroom

[@spacenaves]

Guess this is a case in point right now, pretty sure "breed" ain't the right word

[@gonnfishy2987]

Breakfast of champions!

[@MasterArchfiend]

All of these are better than what my mom does. She calls everything she can’t recall “the thing” and sends me to grab it. She then gets upset when I have no clue what she is talking about and can’t describe it in anyway that helps narrow it down. She also has a tendency to send me looking for things that don’t exist or happen to be stored no where near where she said they would be.

[@Ana-mz7ve]

Hispanic moms be like

[@chunkymonkey7983]

That's just how it is

[@spugintrntl]

When I was in high school I helped my dad build a barn. Any time he said "get me the straightedge", he could have been referring to anything from a carpenter's square, to a piece of 2x4, to a hammer, and I had to know which one he meant or he'd get cross with me. This happened at least five times a day.

[@riveting42]

Yo! Sammmmeeee.

[@sanscofa2184]

The just how Hispanic moms are mines the exact same

[@NerdsterStein]

I remember trying to tell my doctor that my shoulder blade hurt back when I was 16. But I realized I had never heard of the word shoulder blade in my life. So I looked her dead in the eye, with my mom in the room. And said in all serious tone "My chicken wing hurts."
She stared at me dumbfounded trying to find out what the heck I just said.

[@clovermoon3322]

"My chicken wing"🤣

[@Lillyluvsanime]

Pray tell, how did you go sixteen years of your life having never heard the term shoulder blade??

[@thearbitorlife1696]

@@Lillyluvsanime perhaps the American education system?

[@AngelBien]

The fact that you were 16 💀

[@yeonjun4thgenitboy272]

@@Lillyluvsanime i am almost sixteen and didn’t know that was a word until now..

[@LevitheEldritchAbomination]

Reminds me of the time I forgot the word for "example" and spent five minutes trying to remember to word, so I searched up "synonyms for example" before going "Hey-"

[@LuckyLiegeLady246]

My mom once forgot what an ironing board is called and instead called it a “laundry table”. My family still calls it that to this day!

[@creative_leafeonpony_fan1545]

I once forgot what a fork was called, and just desperately insisted it wasn't a knife. I also saw a post that said, similar to this, someone who's native language was not English describe cutlery by saying "Give me the food weapons."

[@starlight_studios8784]

the thing that makes things cold
the fridge...

[@juliee593]

German?

[@mchanna06]

The lunchtime armaments

[@ScientistCat]

the organic matter consumption tools

[@Alegriacaptions]

@@galatians51 the stab spoon 😈

[@babywasabi]

once read a story of a man checking into a hotel (he’s chinese, and not a fluent english speaker) and his room had a rat. he forgot the english word for rat, so he told them “do you know tom and jerry? jerry is here.”
fake or not I think about that a lot 💀

[@mmmmmmmmmmmmm]

LOOOOOOOOOL

[@williamjeffersonling2309]

My mom used to tell me this story often as a joke, and apparently according to her, it worked...

[@Danse_Macabre_125]

gigachad

[@bea-zj6tx]

jisoo from blackpink? i've heard of her doing the same exact thing

[@AngelBien]

I love that lol

[@nico-sanxx593]

I once forgot the word for a vacuum so I called it repeatedly "the sucking thingy" and "the thing that sucks". My mom looked at me as if I was crazy.

[@D3AD3DITZz]

A core memory that haunts me, when I was around 3-4 years old I didn't know the what toast was called, so asked my grandmother for some "warm spiky bread". The worst part, she had no idea what I was asking for and I never did get that toast.

[@wandering-bibliophile]

About a month ago my friend forgot the word "kangaroos" and instead said "bouncy boys". The best part is we all knew exactly what he was talking about.

[@BinglesP]

Need myself a friend who regularly talks about certain animals so much that even if they forget their name occasionally we know what they mean

[@wandering-bibliophile]

@@BinglesP the funny thing is, this friend never really talked about kangaroos before. I'm entirely not sure how we all immediately assumed he meant kangaroos, since there wasn't much context. But I absolutely agree, we all need a friend that talks about a particular animal all the time XD

[@poihpioakarp8845]

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say you must be Australian

[@wandering-bibliophile]

@@poihpioakarp8845 American, unfortunately 😔

[@tydshiin5783]

I love bouncy bois

[@neim4565]

I once called a kazoo a “bee infested whistle” whilst trying to buy one in order to show my friend who didn’t know what one was.

[@embereatstoasters6835]

you what

[@prodbykaji]

bet u cant swear on your mums life

[@pawprint1]

I mean your not wrong?.... They kind of do sound like bees.

[@ian22222]

You’re totally right to call it that 🤣

[@StuffandThings_]

_musical beehive_

[@DBLIsKillingMe]

I was trying to tell my friend that a word wasn’t in my vocabulary. But I forgot the word vocabulary. “Bro that’s not in my brain dictionary.”

[@oreiller4184]

I once forgot the word "dishwasher" and had to google "'washing machine for cutlery". Pretty simple but I like it a lot.
Also forgot "dehydrated" and my brain could only give me "unwatered".
"Text shortcuts" when I meant "abbreviations" happened too.

[@randaranatunga7259]

I remember reading a post about someone’s partner being French and forgetting what the lid of a pot was called.
So the partner looked and pointed at the pot and said “His hat”.
I honestly found that quite hilarious and kinda adorable.

[@TheDark6p]

It is actually quite common for a lot of French people to call all kinds of lids "chapeau" (hat), although you would never use it in serious writing. It's quite cultural and not everyone uses it.

[@treedeerthethingy4812]

I remember seeing that too! To this day, I *still* call pot lids their little hats

[@redeye4516]

I actually see the opposite vernacular used in English a lot where hats, but more commonly helmets, are called lids.
The English and French really had no choice but to oppose one another huh?

[@andromeda_va39]

That's adorable!

[@StoryGamer11]

Im french and i never heard someone call it that

[@striky1268]

i once forgot the word for “exit” and the word “entrance” was fresh in my memory.. i called it a “out-trance”

[@alpers.2123]

There is actually extrance as a word for that

[@clovermoon3322]

Why does that sound so cool-

[@thatsamood]

@@clovermoon3322 it does sound very cool

[@mindymations]

same

[@StormTheSquid]

@@thatsamood let's make outrance the official word for exit

[@Princesskiwa]

I’ve had two terrible circumstances of this. Once I just repeatedly called a pine cone an acorn, the other I called a astronaut a ‘space knight’.

[@axetheraccc]

Proud to say I once forgot the name for a hose and called it something along the lines of "Gardening water tube thing that's sometimes green"
I also often forget the words for "hungry" or "thirsty", but then I remember this meme I saw a couple years ago of people calling it "food thirsty" and "water hungry", and it always helps me remember somehow

[@AgentTex-]

"Walter's World" sounds like a spin-off of Breaking Bad that's an educational cartoon that teaches kids about chemistry.

[@JustAPolishAmerican]

na na, na na! na na, na na! *WALTER'S WORLD!!!*

[@thesuperginge1348]

Breaking Bad in the director style of Wayne's World

[@lazerstudios9982]

PBS Kids presents: Walter's World
I'd make my child watch it if I had one.

[@JustAPolishAmerican]

@@lazerstudios9982 Walter's World, a sister show of the popular Elmo's World.

[@vicious_cycle]

I was thinking it sounds like a Where's Waldo spinoff.

[@AF0916]

I once forgot the term "socially awkward" and instead referred to someone as "socially constipated"

[@bbueno2009]

I mean it’s kind of the Same thing

[@goldenraven7721]

😭😭

[@mariongrey7853]

I mean 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@May-ql3ce]

I am inlove with this comment

[@tessaclaire1152]

As someone who is socially awkward, “socially constipated” is accurate

[@kuromi1676]

once before i forgot the name of chocolate milk and called it "brown juice" 💀

[@koopatroopa6882]

So liquid sh*t 💀💀💀

[@Slayer-88]

One time me and my friend were on vacation in Puerto Peñasco Mexico. Over dinner that night, the conversation turned to differences in cultures and mid conversation he forgets the word for Mexicans and called the locals;
"The Dessert Italians"

[@thescholarsjourney661]

Once, at work, I forgot the word for "dressing", like the kind on salads. So I asked a guest what salad beverage they wanted

[@crazycreaturestudios]

I woulda said salad sauce lmao 🤣

[@thescholarsjourney661]

@@crazycreaturestudios Probably would have worked better, but I was in the mode of: "Oh, they ordered a meal, so I need to ask about a beverage." So it was the first word that came to mind, lol.

[@musewolfman]

I'm amazed more waiter/tress/ don't do this. It's such a brain-numbing job, even when you work somewhere that doesn't treat you like garbage.

[@evacochran4229]

Better than me: I said ‘hey dad, do you want any salad clothes on your salad?’
We still joke about that to this day!

[@StormTheSquid]

@@evacochran4229 *S A L A D C L O T H E S*
I AM *D Y I N G* LOL

[@confusingTM]

never forget that one time someone forgot/didn't know the word for pony and called it a "compressed horse"

[@spyritsolz]

LMFAO 💀

[@megaturtle9547]

pretty accurate. everyone knows babies are just compressed adults.

[@Prancer3301]

Ah yes, my favorite show: My Little Compressed Horse

[@TheUsualJessieJay]

This is actually accurate. Ponies are just smaller adult horses, so they aren't wrong.

[@dazcarrr]

@@spyritsolz you just ended the video

[@maybellinelover]

I once forgot the word for scissors. Called them cutting utensils while doing a cutting motion with my fingers.

[@Doloresandthecatplates]

" Dumbledore's University Castle" That's actually a good name though 😂

[@tiahere8499]

i once forgot what traditional and digital drawings were called and said "online or offline drawing"... my arts teacher still doesnt let me forget it

[@OZdoesArt]

I once heard "analog art" used to describe traditional art

[@queenchaosyet]

Nah I do Organic and Many Pixles art

[@binniethepug9835]

I do online and moving art

[@galaxydeathskrill5607]

I'm dead😂😂

[@sleepy_luneflower]

💀💀

[@cyclicspoon2588]

My mum was once talking about planes, and forgot the words “pilot” and “co-pilot”. Instead, she called the the “flyer” and “deputy flyer”.

[@elhazthorn918]

Hah! You fly-boys crack me up!

[@colossaltitan3546]

Best one I've read yet

[@TheCoinNerd]

IZ yO mOm a CoP¿

[@cheezbred]

your moms version of pilots are better.

[@daynamorris2399]

I forgot the word for anniversary so I called it a "wedding birthday"

[@connie7224]

My friend forgot Stephen Hawkins name the other day and called him “smart magic chair man” and I immediately understood him.

[@lazarusrat6159]

When I was in high school, I was answering a question to the class and forgot what an apostrophe was called so I called it a "floating comma."

[@altaccount4]

My mom is a German teacher for refugees who come to Germany and one time a guy in her class needed to buy frozen chicken but couldn't find it at the grocery store. So he took an egg, walked up to a cashier, held it in their face and asked "where's mom?"

[@altaccount4]

@JayLeeBeanz huh I guess I or my mom could have misrembered something. I'll ask her about it.

[@alphafemalewolf6922]

This killed me. I just died laughing while my dog stared at me, wondering what the fuck was wrong with me.

[@FiSH-iSH]

@JayLeeBeanz perhaps the guy had heard the joke and applied the logic to his situation

[@allyli1718]

@JayLeeBeanz I feel like these stories just happen pretty often with people learning new languages.

[@Weird_Jellyfish]

I've heard this story before

[@superfilmbros3307]

One time I forgot the name “acrylic” so I called them, “prosthetic” and said to my sister, “I really like your prosthetic nails!” I’m done 💀

[@TitularHeroine]

Technically true, which is the best kind of true!

[@staymadroblox678]

SKUHULLLL EMOOOJIII

[@TheCompodulator]

​@@ihavenodesiretocreateahandle I mean... Dogs and cats get prosthetic balls if the get really upset about them... 😂

[@RFC-3514]

@@TitularHeroine - Exactly. If anything, it's _more_ descriptive (and covers gel nails as well).

[@ZenganTheFool]

@@ihavenodesiretocreateahandle if i was your mom i would have just like, straight up died there. Like i'd just wheeze until my lungs come out of my mouth and just fucking die on the floor and it will be worth it

[@NotWhoYouAreLookingFor]

My sister managed to forget both the word "Cemetary" and "Graveyard" and ended up pointing out the car window and going "That's a big coffin park"

[@static-scribblez]

I was explaining to someone why I couldn’t wear my chest binder for longer than 8 hours a day + why I can’t do PE in it and I forgot the word for ribcage so I just kinda went:
“Yeah, I can’t wear it for too long or exercise in it, it’s really bad for my....
my chest bones.”

[@Mari-Schimmer]

Eh, good enough

[@kat62912]

I met this Italian guy once who spoke English and Italian fluently and one time he forgot the name for "bowl" in Italian and just kept pointing to a bowl making a "buh" sound and no one could understand him so he just yelled "HORIZONTAL CUP"

[@Null-value]

Something that my mom pointed out to me today is that a spoon is just a tiny bowls on a stick.

[@ambarcastaneda4763]

@@Null-value woah

[@Null-value]

@@ambarcastaneda4763 we eat out of bowls using *tinier bowls*
Even crazier: pots and pans are also bowls on sticks. Which means that they are in fact really large spoons.

[@slimyduck2140]

Why did I do angry hand gestures when I read the "HORIZONTAL CUP" ?
Man I didn't know that italians moving their hands was contagious

[@FiSH-iSH]

@@Null-value id argue most spoons are more saucer-like tbh

[@roscyj9219]

I once forgot what a can was and called it a “tin jar”
The worst part is that I was convinced there was another name for can, when I was talking about a can of soup. It felt as if I once lived in a universe where a can was called something else, and there had been a sort of glitch in the matrix. It felt so distantly real. It still does.

[@ConiferConnieTreeCow]

In some other English speaking countries we call it a tin, so you're not entirely wrong

[@0_dearghealach_083]

Well, you were close. If you can't find a word for something, you find the closest substitute.
Koko the gorilla didn't know the word for "ring", so she signed "finger" and "bracelet".

[@DocBree13]

I’ve had that happen with a few things - it’s so discombobulating!

[@jyotsnabaghel4781]

I had the same same experience for the word "soon"

[@DialecticRed]

@@0_dearghealach_083 Koko the gorilla kinda couldn't actually talk, and Soup Emporium made a really informative piece explaining it if you're interested. I reccomed reading the pinned comment before watching it if you choose to do so, because he lays out relevand disclaimers. That said, it's actually really sad how awfully Koko was treated, and a lot of it ended up being more for media attention than anything else, with a lot of bad research practices being employed. I'd definitely say it's worth a watch.

[@art3m1sgodd70]

I forgot the word "vowels" once. I had to ask my six year old brother what the word was for "even letters"

[@LuciTheSilly]

*I always forget the word “Washing Machine” so I ask “Did you put my pants in the dishwasher?” a lot of times to my family members, and their always like “I…dishwasher…?”*
*I also read a jellybean package as the every flavor jellybeans from Harry Potter, I don’t even know how I did, but I did.*

[@crystalgoddess4085]

Calling an accent a "voice font" is surprisingly accurate when you think about it, but I wonder what accent would be what font.

[@YataTheFifteenth]

Stereotypical American is Calibri while stereotypical British is Times New Roman

[@D7STOPIAN]

@@YataTheFifteenth lies and slander, stereotypical American would be comic sans.

[@his-.]

German is caveat

[@vermontvampyre]

as an American I'd say the base Majority of American would be "comic sans" just in different colors to denote regional accents (:: Though the south would definitely be wing dings. Can barely understand some of those folks o.o

[@YataTheFifteenth]

@@D7STOPIAN no that's just brooklyn

[@neonneo143]

Shrek being summertime Grinch is just so perfect. i'll call him that from now on

[@The360MlgNoscoper]

How about "The Good Ogre"?

[@ravengray3095]

3:36 I forgot Grand Canyon once too and actually described it really similar XD “the big hole in the ground in Arizona”

[@oliviar.l.v.68]

My great grandma always forgets the name for raccoons so she just gave up and calls them," American Kangaroos" (no i don't see the similarities either). But you could imagine our confusion when she first described that she she saw an "American kangaroo" outside her house 😂

[@Fuzunga]

One time I asked my friend for some “germ blastin’ hand juice” when I forgot the name for hand sanitizer.

[@bblundy01]

i’m gonna start using that

[@sillygoof2473]

hnad snatizizer 👍

[@justarandomuser5793]

Sounds better than hand sanitizer in my opinion

[@itsmelissa5788]

This could be made into a funny hand sanitizer commercial 😂

[@gaysarahk]

Yeah, at least this one *sounds* deliberate.

[@anayomieda]

I once forgot what a seal was called in english and described it as a "toothpaste shaped dolphin dog"

[@calibricalypso]

This is one of the funniest ones I've seen omg. I almost want to use that now

[@tomatootamot]

Technically you're right

[@k2misunzy443]

true tho

[@thatsamood]

HUH?

[@drkeri]

When I was 3 I forgot the word for tears and called them “Crying Sauce” and it’s since become an inside joke

[@briandennis6821]

Like the time I forgot the name for an "apostrophe" and called it an "up comma" in the middle of class 💀💀

[@beaniebebie89]

one time while driving with my friends i forgot the colour "beige" existed and called the colour of the car next to us "dirty champaine" lmao

[@clovermoon3322]

🤣

[@cr0wn_574]

Arguably better imo, lmao

[@hawktalon7890]

Ahh yes, a new Pantone color. 🤣

[@kitkatboard]

*flesh color*

[@The_Professional_Moron]

Okay, but why does “dragon shrimp” sound like it could be an actual name for a shrimp species?

[@TheSuperappelflap]

because it is a popular recipe that uses shrimp

[@Lillyluvsanime]

There is a dragon shrimp, miropandalus hardingi. It looks spikey.

[@---iv5gj]

Dragonshrimp is just the chinese name for lobsters

[@BinglesP]

Sounds like the type of animal name that has two or more words describing it but it technically isn't either/any/all of them(i.e. Zebra Turkeyfish)

[@gaysarahk]

@@BinglesP Or sea horses?
Seriously, dragon shrimp is way better, and I'm probably going to call them that from now on.

[@OuterSpaceandTimelapses4]

My mom once called a feather from a bird a “bird leaf”

[@raidencase8674]

I once forgot the word "fishing" and said something along the lines of "you know, the thing where you get the fish with the stick" my dad stared at me silently for a good 10 seconds...

[@jacquelinewarner-smith1770]

Years and years ago, I remember seeing a post on tumblr where someone's friend-who was an international student-wanted some fruit, so he called a pear "a pear" and called an apple "the pear's friend". I loved it.

[@clovermoon3322]

Aww

[@jaceyjohnson8922]

I remember it the other way around

[@MuffinTastic]

HEY APPLE HEY PEAR

[@jaceyjohnson8922]

@@MuffinTastic shut up

[@DogDogGodFog]

Bro how the heck would a non-native learn the word for pear before the word for apple, apples are literally the most famous fruit and they're in all sorts of language text books and are one of the most famous portable objects ever probably, I mean heck, one of the world's biggest companies is literally named Apple

[@ellathompson6052]

I was on a date with a guy one time and we were speaking Spanish but I didn’t know the word for cow so I just called it a “milk horse” and he absolutely lost it laughing

[@ItsLucy_GD]

"Milk horse" Goodness gracious AHAHHAAHA

[@naranjo5277]

caballo de leche ☠️

[@farfrommercury]

Pffftt-
What would you call a zebra, then?
A horse from the 60s black and white era.

[@jemjem461]

One time I forgot the word for napkins so I called them "decorative tissues"

[@dadoctah]

Not because I couldn't remember the word "peacocks", but I once designated them "emo turkeys" to go along with the fad for calling rabbits "booplesnoots", raccoons "trash pandas" and snakes "danger noodles".
I also came up with "stoner bear" for a tree sloth and "peen clam" for a geoduck.

[@singandsignauditions]

THIS IS WAY FUNNIER THAN IT SHOULD BE AND THE WAY HE SAYS EMOJIS AND KEYBOARD SMASHES KILLS ME😭💀

[@alice-bi6ue]

FRR😭

[@bloxxel]

*S K U L L E M O J I*

[@bubbledafoxy]

SAME

[@AxxLAfriku]

🚨🚨🚨 AAAAAAHHHHH!!! 🚨🚨🚨 school is sooooo boring i am in 8th grate and its so boring i am having sucess on youtube so i think i will drop out of school. i dont have friends so i need your opinon defr

[@LinktheHylianChampion117]

@@AxxLAfrikustay in school, you don't need to go to college, but in case you need a side job you will be glad that you decided to stay in school.

[@emilywilliams6197]

My child asked me for a hot dog cake pop once. Took me a bit to realize he wanted a corn dog.

[@gaxalee7392]

Ok, I’m so fucking stupid!! That had me laughing so hard I started crying!!

[@ConiferConnieTreeCow]

"Cake pops" are an abomination that never needed to exist. Fittingly, I have no idea how to explain why, but I can't stand the entire concept of them.

[@CherryFizzOfficial]

When my youngest brother was like 3 years old we moved into a house that had a big air conditioner on one of the living room windows, and my brother knew it blew cold air, but no one bothered to explain to him what it was called, so one summer day he toddled up to me and asked if I wanted to go sit in front of the ''windy fence'' with him
Bonus, he once called a dish sprayer a ''shower gun'' and that's become part of my vocab now

[@dia666]

I remember when someone forgot DankPods name and they simply searched for "Australian guy who yells at ipods" and found him. I laughed so hard at that one

[@dumbclown]

I once forgot the word "Spray bottle" so I called it a "Squirt squirt" and now it's a running gag in the family

[@Pato-ey4ez]

I didnt know it was possible to turn into a fricking pokemon, damn

[@Strauberry69]

S q u i r t S q u i r t

[@btjhlp]

We call ours the, and I quote, the "chh chh." We spray our cats with it when they misbehave. Now when we see the little demons on the counter, we just say "chh chh" and off they are. One was eating me as I typed this...

[@lennydavillain1]

I once also forgot the word for spray bottle (like for cleaning) and called it a "counter gun"

[@Alegriacaptions]

In my family we've always called that a "pshit pshit"

[@stagelights_]

I one time forgot the name of a wrist and called it an "arm elbow," forgetting that elbows are also on your arm

[@ConiferConnieTreeCow]

You probably presque vued twice, forgetting not only the word "wrist" but the word "ankle"

[@sleepyhead1707]

Don't worry I called thighs "up shins" for like a week straight

[@purpleweirdothecutie]

@@sleepyhead1707 A WEEK?!

[@sleepyhead1707]

@@purpleweirdothecutie it was closer to 2 ngl

[@theunluckyclover]

Most of the time when i can’t remember what something is i just say “that thing that does the thing” while making hand motions generally connected to the object im talking about (except for that one time i forgot the word for campfire tale so in a panic i just blurted out “fireplace myth”)

[@sunnytheworm1423]

Once called a glass of water a “Cup of the…. The… the liquid stuff. You know… bathtub juice?” And yes, I called it “bathtub juice” it was 10 in the morning and I had just woken up and had yet to have caffeine.

[@royalblanket]

I forgot what drum sticks were, and I was about to describe them to google to find out. But I described them as drum sticks and halfway through typing it I had an existential crisis

[@megaturtle9547]

"What are drum sticks called-? Oh..."

[@Guy_that_exists]

Basically the equivalent of a 404 error for me.

[@NoriMori1992]

That's like the word equivalent of turning on your phone flashlight to look for your phone.

[@royalblanket]

@@megaturtle9547 Basically the exact thought process

[@queenchaosyet]

Once I said “what game is doom guy from?” And I felt the same

[@lilacthesmolfox5029]

One time I forgot what a ceiling fan was called, so instead I called it a ceiling blender and acted like that’s what I always called it

[@EatAnOctorok]

If you ever get suddenly turned in gravity for 180 degrees, it will be exactly that.

[@chococookie7158]

@@EatAnOctorok oh god

[@chardaxmossy]

I'm dutch and i was translating my American friend a song and we came to the word begrafenis (funeral) but i forgot how to say it and yeah this happened "you know that word it's like ✨death wedding✨" "you mean funeral?" "YES!"

[@daynamorris2399]

A death themed wedding actually sounds like it could be a thing

[@TheKreature13666]

Oh! I have one from yesterday!
I was in a Discord call with a few friends of mine on my ex-fiance's server*, and one of my friends (Who we call Cod) forgot the English word for Dresser (he's Scandinavian) and described it as "A cabinet, but for clothes"
* = Not that it matters, but I've known my ex for roughly a decade, and her and I have since both agreed that we're better off as friends then as a couple.

[@AdirondackRuby]

My favorite brainfart was forgetting the word Feather and calling it a Bird Leaf. I now deliberately call them that.

[@ConiferConnieTreeCow]

are you related to the other commenter who once called leaves "tree feathers" 😂

[@AdirondackRuby]

@@ConiferConnieTreeCow LOL! No, but I should be! We'd fit right in with each other!

[@duck7078]

That would make skin the bark and bones the wood.

[@gamer_glenn5438]

​@@duck7078 and possibly the egg being a sapling

[@jaketheadventurer2772]

I have a pet bird in my house. When one of her bird leaves fell off, I kept it and started using it as a bookmark for whatever book I read.

[@szlanty]

I once forgot what “procrastination” was while describing to a teacher why i didn’t get something done, and I said something along the lines of “the Eh I’ll Do It Later thing”

[@Kitty_C]

That’s exactly what procrastination is tho

[@Marcelelias11]

"Eh, I'll remember it later"

[@Fumbann]

Could have been worse. You could be me and have said "pro-castration" instead 😔

[@badlydrawnmedievallion6832]

​@@Fumbann LMFAOOO

[@Tofukatze]

A mascot amongst me and my friends was actually created this exact way.
A friend of mine forgot the name for sheep in german so instead he said Wolletierchen which translates to wool animal.

[@EpicOnlineBully]

my favorite one has to be “walters world” 0:48

[@tacohead8543]

Non-natives forget the silliest stuff. I forgot the word for tub and called it "washing tube", in an english test.
Friend forgot the word for "door", called it "entering wall".

[@raidaridi5375]

wall entrance

[@suppotato1235]

I'm a Native English speaker and it's embarrassing how often I forget to speak in my own language.

[@jorvach9874]

It is very common for me to forget words in my native language, Swedish, but remember them in English. It's gotten to the point where my thoughts are in English too.

[@tacohead8543]

@@jorvach9874 have had that happen too many times

[@kostan55]

@JayLeeBeanz spin wall

[@ThruHerEyes]

My cousin forgot the word "dragonfly" and called them "tiny bug helicopters" and recently I forgot the word "book" so I said "word collage"

[@snowballars]

dragonflies always reminded me of helicopters :)

[@thediscodevil0949]

I remember watching an r/kidsarestupid vid, and this little kid called a dragonfly a ‘baby helicopter’. It was the cutest thing ever, lol.

[@clyde-or-monty]

@@thediscodevil0949 AWWE

[@thediscodevil0949]

@@clyde-or-monty :D

[@BinglesP]

I mean dragonflies only use their legs for standing and picking things up so you're kinda right

[@Puppy_Pizza]

I forgotten many things and it's embarrassing to count but if I recall. One time, I was talking to mom about My Little Pony and forgot the name of it was, so I called them , "Rainbow Magical Ponies".

[@maggiebuman188]

I forgot the word for "grocery store" a while back; called it "the food store place, you know, the place that sells food" and then continued on with my sentence like normal. I worked for a grocery chain for two years. My roommate is still laughing at me.

[@topazs.5492]

The food place specifically for Kuzco

[@GarlicBreadEnjoyer]

I remember not knowing what an ambulance is as a 6 year old and called it "The hospital car" lmao

[@AlterEgoCole]

Thats what it is tho

[@ijustoutpizzadthehut3712]

I mean you weren't wrong

[@Danse_Macabre_125]

You weren't wrong \_(シ)_/

[@bunnybunsbunny]

@@AlterEgoCole i think it's more of a taxi

[@scythal]

@@bunnybunsbunny Especially in America!

[@starspices]

I once called steam from my toaster “bread humidity.” Like I legitimately forgot the word steam existed

[@raidaridi5375]

"i downloaded a game from bread humidity"

[@pawprint1]

@@raidaridi5375 My favorite gaming platform is Bread Humidity, thanks Red Water Activating Wheel for making it exist!

[@equilibrum999]

@@pawprint1 And thank the RWAW for making the Dimensional Doors game making it exist

[@pawprint1]

@@equilibrum999 And thank RWAW for not only making the Dimensional Doors game but also the Blue And Red Gun Game.
Edit: Also forgot to mention a special thanks for them for making the classic really well received Man Half Living Because of Ailens.
Edit 2: Accidentally made 2 replies because this one got deleted then came back(?) some how.

[@archevenault]

@@pawprint1 Not to forget the free-to-play head covering simulator Group Castle 2!

[@heartofthewild680]

“Dragon shrimp” actually sounds like a great idea for a DND food item. And now I kind of want to know what that would taste like. Do you think they’d be spicy?

[@ShoddySleet74]

Definitely would. Probably some fire-infused shrimp with dragon heads. And it goes with the overall theme really well.

[@miraculousmoonsanddragons]

One time I forgot the word for storyteller and I said "reader-out-louder"

[@aceofbranches]

A close friend of mine was playing a game where you guess a word from a definition and she got "hive"
She KNEW the word was hive but could not pull it from her brain so instead she slammed her hands on the table, rattling the glasses and putting out two of the candles, and declared, "BEE BOX."

[@iwikal]

I always found it strange that manmade hives and natural hives share the same word when they look so different. Bee box is a better name really

[@bloop6111]

These are always pretty funny but the thought of someone doing it with that amount of energy and power behind it just reached a new level of funny for me

[@VeryRareEgg]

did she win?

[@aceofbranches]

i sure hope so

[@taliesinriver]

@@iwikal Manmade hives *are* called bee boxes, at least where I live

[@country.germany]

I forgot what ADHD was called so i called it
" *Can't stop moving disease* " Good job self

[@_Hanshu_]

My grandma forgot the name of wipes,so she asked us “need a wet one?”💀

[@bwayagnes]

lol that’s a brand name for wipes here so that’s extra funny 😂

[@onyxstewart9587]

One evening I saw a big moth fluttering around but I forgot what they were called and yelled out "a night butterfly!"

[@The360MlgNoscoper]

Shutterfly

[@TheRealFrozenFire]

Well technically they are so you're not wrong.

[@jakeplaysgameree1]

@@TheRealFrozenFire moths are basically the less cool versions of butterflies lmfao, they're pretty related

[@imreallybadatnamingthings]

@JakePlaysGamRee1 moths are WAY cooler than butterflies

[@imreallybadatnamingthings]

@kikkeliaivo I didn't know that before, and I'm glad I do now!

[@musingsofmessa]

I honestly commend these people for forgetting what something is called, and giving said thing a cooler name. It's not only funny, but interesting.

[@galaxybolt1748]

Dunkin’ Sexy Bagels would be the new name of Dunkin’ Donuts going off of if all of them were better

[@DarkPrinceRalsei]

_Bandits of the Woods_

[@bugelover]

screwdriver gun is definitely the coolest.

[@CLove511]

"Horny but like, for food" is just.... *Chef's kiss*

[@kiratheelf772]

my mother awhile back tried to say she had good people skills, but couldn't remember that particular turn of phrase.
so her brain suggested that she had "human powers."

[@chloedutton8937]

I once tried to describe tinsle (forgot the name)
So I said *"you know that long sparky thingy? Like the one with the shiny rectangle things?"*
I repeated the same description until my *TEACHER* said *"I really hope your not taking about tinsle, are you?"*
It was awkward-

[@squarohedron0664]

I thought it was spelled tinsel

[@Arthurm690]

i don´t even know the name for that in my native language, so i just call it "the grass decoration thing you hang"

[@eggyt1153]

Just accidentally forgot the name for double doors and asked my father, “Why are you opening the both doors?” and he looked at me confused 💀

[@bombyman84]

Can I look at your confused

[@vaughnhaney7020]

@@bombyman84 It's the skull emoji that was confused, clearly

[@JimmyBoosterCrate]

I bet your confused was cute

[@Strauberry69]

Can you show us your confused

[@brighthades5968]

Yeah your confused S K U L L E M O J I
After op edited: For anyone looking "confused" at the reply section bcz it doesn't make sense the original comment said _my confused 💀_