Or do I have a head injury?

[resonant]

You know, the longer I spend in post-menopausal word loss --

"if you don't live in a country with an active -- aw, hell, I've lost the word -- not royalty, not monarchy, not oligarchy, the thing where some people have better blood than other people --"

"Aristocracy?"

"Thank you!"

-- the more familiar it looks to me when Ray Kowalski says "the Northwest Areas" or starts the Miranda statement and then loses his place and trails off.

(Due South content in 2022 is thanks to fox, who KNOWS WHY.)

Comments

[twistedchick]

It's a noun thing, very rarely a verb thing. I can be talking to the SU about someone, visualize their face, and forget their name. Or I can remember the entire plot of a book or movie and forget either the title or the author. It's *there* in the brain, but just out of reach. Someone medical told me it had to do with hormone changes at menopause, and I believe them, because it never happened to me before that. Oddly enough, it does not seem to work in retrospect; I remember a lot of old family stories and family history with all the names and a reasonable sense of the dates, but more modern things are harder.

[resonant]

I think mine is nouns too - will have to watch for that. If I remember.

I wonder if the family stories thing is similar to the way people can lose word access (this happened to a friend of mine who had a stroke) but still retain the full lyrics to hundreds of songs.