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General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: Judith57 on December 14, 2014, 02:29:06 PM
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Does anyone else keep using the wrong word? it is happening to me more and more and although sometimes it is quite comical it is also quite alarming.
This morning, I told my OH that some men had turned up in a FLATBREAD full of earth to fill in the holes on the Heath where new lamposts had been erected.
I then told him that a man was out on the Heath hitting golf balls and the police had come along and put him in CUFFLINKS.
I meant flatbed and handcuffs of course! God knows what I say without noticing ???
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Don't worry I do this too. 😉
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Sounds pretty normal to me.
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Yep. We have whole conversations with wrong words but understand each other ………..
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Don't worry I do it too. My worst problem is not finding the right word & then going on at great lengths trying to describe what I'm trying to say, when that one word would have said it all. Frustrating isn't it? ::)
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;D …….. I end up pointing at things I'm trying to name ::) …….
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I also start a sentence about someone and then when I get to the part where I have to say the name I can't remember it for the life of me. As in, 'Oh yes, he starred in that film with ????) It is always such a shock as well when the name doesn't come as I know exactly who I mean. ::)
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I do that too.
Or use the word 'thingy' or ' hugamaflip' ::) that's one I made up.
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I hate it when I've known a person for years but when I go to introduce them, can't remember the name :-X
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I queued for 20 minutes in Selfridges yesterday for some of those 'personalised' Nutella jars - don't know if you've seen them but someone came up with a wicked idea for making money ::)
When it was my turn and I had to write the names I wanted on a piece of paper, I had completely forgotten the name of one of the children I was buying for! It came to me eventually but I had visions of having jars for all the children except one - nightmare!
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Oh heck me too. I just read out all the posts to hubby and he kept saying, yes you do that and yes you say that....he was laughing though.
Ummm not funny. Some days I can't remember my address ???. What's that all about.
Honeyb
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I know, I was terrified I was going to forget my address the other day, it came to me in the nick of time. Also, I have to say my mobile phone number very quickly otherwise I forget the second half if I think about it too much. I have to keep re-setting my M&S password because I can't remember it. Luckily I have the same PIN number on all my cards or I would be totally lost! ::)
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The more I try hard to find the right word, the more elusive the word becomes.
I am surrounded by thingies, wotsits, doohickeys, and oojamaflips.
When I find words, there's no guarantee they will be the right ones and I forget my train of thought too. It certainly makes for an interesting conversation/business meeting ;D
Galadriel x
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I have all my passwords written down and hidden, other wise I have no chance.
We stay in ###### Gardens.....round the corner is #### Drive. I get them mixed up on a regular basis.
Then there is my name.....easy you would think. I have answered to two christian names all my life. My dad registered them the wrong way round so my mother called me by my middle name. I also answer to my first name.
Now when someone asks my name, or I have to quote my name, I have to think quickly to try and remember what they know me by.
Complicated or what....life is never easy and like I need any more to get confused over.
Honeyb
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My OH and I laugh about it when I use the wrong word, we say words are floating by above my head and I reach for the closest one and think 'that'll do' :o
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My thoughts don't even get out of my head ;D
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I hate it when I've known a person for years but when I go to introduce them, can't remember the name :-X
That happened to me years ago, CLKD. A friend and I had gone along to an event and I went to introduce her to someone there but completely forgot her name. It was really embarrassing - and I didn't have the meno to hide behind!
My mother was a school music teacher and one day, she had been teaching a class of six-year-olds. She was taking a roll-call or something, and tried to remember as many names-and-faces as she possibly could. Then she came to a little boy whose name absolutely escaped her. So she said, "Um....hello. And how do you spell your name?" The little boy (with both front teeth missing) replied, "Thay, Oh, Aith, Enn". Mum felt a bit stupid...........!
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Does that spell John ? ::)
One thing my husband does when he gets angry/in a rage is to say things spelt wrong - one classic being "that was only a 'quivil cestion' " - it usually diffuses the situation as i end up ;D
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is that a spoonerism? The 2 Ronnies did a brilliant sketch with spoonerisms :)
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Yes think so there was a repeat last week where they did a sketch which was very funny.
Is Judith doing Malapropisms ?
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what in the name of all things christmas is a malapropism? :o
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:rofl:
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are you laughing at me Hattie?
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no not at all :) it is just the way you said
what in the name of all things christmas :o
it's just my sense of humour
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism
Hattie X
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oh, that's good then, thanks. I think I understand ::)
Ah, the penny just dropped - Hilda Ogden ;D
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Now that's what I call a meander :lol:
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Hi Hattie, yes sadly it appears I have turned into Hilda Ogden, geese flying up my wall next! :o
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I remember Hilda's 'murial' ;D
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Geese - they are DUCKS ;D
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and one was always upside down ;D
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Yes, I still call a mural a Muriel to this day as it makes me laugh ::). Only when I am with people who would get the joke though, mind you I shouldn't let that bother me now as I am just as bad with my flatbread/flatbed and cufflinks/handcuffs!
You are right CLKD, they are ducks not geese ;D
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Does that spell John ?
Yes! (Or rather, yeth!)
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Hey there
Me too, happens all the time x
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Yes! (Or rather, yeth!)
;D just made me ;D at what you've written
Hattie X
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It kept my mum in giggles for years after, Hattie!
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I'm still laughing about putting the man in cufflinks ;D
when I first met OH (v young) he informed me he was going to the hair saloon. We still laugh about it. I imagine one with those John Wayne type swing doors and dodgy patrons nursing whisky and asking for highlights ;D
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I do this too as well as putting things in the wrong place e.g trying to get the kettle into a cupboard and putting the cup where the kettle should be!! I am forever getting my words wrong and by the time I have figured out the right one I have forgotten what was saying in the first place! :o ::)
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How many famous people do you meet though ;)
I tried emptying a whole packet of sugar into a mug last week [we've a thread about that here too] ::)
I am good at pointing ………
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Dream on ;)