@HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-21 year 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-square13fedilinkarrow-up1107arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1101arrow-down1message-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-21 year agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@exixx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish16•1 year 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-square@jasep@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink6•1 year agoGoogle translate says “Zungenspitze” is the German word for “tip of tongue”.
minus-square@cmbabul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink4•1 year agoI’d be surprised if there isn’t a German word for it
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”.
I’d be surprised if there isn’t a German word for it