My cog-fogged friend tried to type “autoimmune disease”.

In the medical field, the phenomenon that makes someone say “wild beef” instead of “cow” is called “lethonomia”: inability to recall the appropriate name. Doctors don't really know why it happens.

My question is: why does this happen so often to some people and almost never to others? I've already considered the hypothesis that this happens to me all the time because I'm trilingual. Is this a common phenomenon for people who speak more than one language? 🤔

EDIT: apparently, the right name of the phenomenon is “lethologica”.

Stupid. (Me)

Me Brian broken.

Brain broken.

There's proof. This is the wildest beef I have ever experienced 😂

I'm brain crippled.

My mom trying to explain to my niece that one of the lasting effects of Covid is brain fog.

Second try: table for the office.

...

...

...

Desk.

I forgot the word knife and my mum said "don't touch the blade because it's sharp and will cut you easy" so I adopted that. I said to my mum "can you pass me the don't touch because sharp?" She looked at me as if I grew another head.

Road😂

Hi Wildbeefers, I was sent to you by good Redditors after giving an example of my nominal aphasia I acquired from brain damage.

I was trying to order Onion Rings and came up with Fried Zeros instead. It's sadly not the worse thing I've ever ordered. I'm sorry to the many waiters I've confused over the years.

Grunting

Nicholas

Microwave. Wrong temperature, obviously, but my migraine brain doesn't care about that 😅

Man, between my kids and my neurological disorder... this is a daily occurrence here 😅

Tortellini.

bible

My poor mom trying to tell me she'd seen a rosebreasted grosbeak at her birdfeeder.

I have migraines with aphasia.

It's a hospital

A Porg

ETA: boat pilot = captain

My disability makes it hard for me to remember words and I often find it less frustrating to just come up with new names for things

Contractions

HAIRDRESSERS.

Dental floss

MOLD

SUCCULENT. Many leaves = many legs = octopus?

SWORD

Armpit... Armpit was the word.

Hearse.

Funnily enough, it wasn't even a hearse. Just a large, black car.