I have, twice that I can remember.

  • Nukamajig - microwave. I still use it from time to time because it’s too stupid not to.
  • Miscombobulate - mixup and confuse. Just now, between the time it was and when the appartment building’s laundry room was closed for the night.
  • Signtist@bookwyr.meEnglish
    39·
    3 days ago

    My family calls the TV remote a “gonk” because apparently my grandpa called it that once back when they were still a pretty new thing, and it stuck. My mom and her siblings passed it on to their own kids, and now there’s just a small packet of people in Minnesota who call TV remotes gonks, much to the confusion of our peers.

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 days ago

    My friend had brain surgery for an aneurysm, and every so often she fumbles a word as a result. One day she wanted to say the word lumberjacks, but her brain came up with logfarmers instead.

  • starlinguk@lemmy.world
    15·
    3 days ago

    I have long covid, I’m in the menopause, and I deal with three separate languages each day.

    Anyway, gulls are sea pigeons. You’re welcome.

  • YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 days ago

    You people are way too bright with your apt and often witty alternatives for when you forget something’s actual name. Me? I just employ an entirely random sound or made up word. It drives my wife insane. “Babe, would you pass me the…fucking… spraaaal?”

  • ImpulseDrive42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    My mom sometimes uses “doomaflagidad” for basically anything. The only way I’ve been able to translate is by using context clues. Usually based on what we’re talking about or if she’s pointing or using hand gestures.

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Swedish is awesome with compound words, say that you forget the Swedish word for “computer”, “dator”, you could just use “informationshanteringsmaskin” instead!

    I used three words to make one compound word, the words I used was:

    “Information”, “hantering” and “maskin”

    • SynonymousStoat@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 days ago

      I’ve had the same experience, except I wrote it as “ove” and it took me far longer than I’d like to admit to realize what I had done. There are a couple other words that I’ve typed a phonetic spelling without realizing it, but I can’t seem to remember the specific words at the moment.

    • thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net
      3·
      3 days ago

      only a matter of time before that’s a commonly accepted spelling, guv. I wouldn’t be surprised if future actors mistakenly pronounce the current spelling as “awf” in their period pieces.

    • Etterra@discuss.onlineOPEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Set reminds me of one of those pictures you see sometimes, where they’ll throw in a deliberate spelling or grammar mistake just to see if you caught it the first read through. Like “the the” or "the Statue ov Liberty.

  • moondoggie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    I don’t intentionally make them up, it’s just what comes to me as my brain frantically tries to figure out the right word. Like “fish museum.”

  • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    I remember there was a reddit community about this for a while, but I can’t remember what it was.

    My favorite that I’ve used on occasion during a brain fart is ‘food laundry’ when I can’t remember ‘dishes’

  • Professorozone@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 days ago

    When I was young there was a book of words made up by people where words didn’t exist. Close to what OP was saying. They were called Snigglets. I remember a few.

    1. Downpause-the interruption of rain when you drive under a bridge.

    2. Ignosecond- the tiny interval of time, for instance, between closing the car door and while it is in motion, remembering the key is inside.

    3. PRNDL - pronounced prendle, the stock in the middle of the car it on the steering column that switches between drive modes.

    And one I made up:

    1. Blurble - when a liquid is being poured into a container and at some point a drop jumps out of the container and into your eye or some other inconvenient place. Also, when you are drinking and the liquid level in the container reaches that critical point where when the drink is returned to a level position causes a drop to blurble out of the cup. And finally that sound a liquid makes when it comes out of a 2 liter bottle.