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

[lexin]

I've had word loss since I was 20. I put it down to being at university and being under stress while taking exams. It's really simple things I forget - the first one was 'mushrooms' and I remember being in a shop and pointing at them saying, "Those white things, there." Of course that was in the days when there were greengrocers.

[resonant]

I can definitely see a difference depending on how much sleep I get, but there's a baseline level of word access difficulty that never goes away. The writing I do for work rarely demands a novel word, but in what little personal writing I do, I'm often putting placeholders - "like a [star, planet, thingy]" - because usually the next time around it comes back to me.