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.)

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[nnozomi]

...oh good, it's not just me.
Like some other people around here, because my personal and professional lives both straddle two languages, I get to forget twice as many words, aren't I lucky. I have a feeling that assuming I live old, I will end up only able to communicate in a jumble of (at least) two different languages, so anybody who wants to talk to me at that point will have to speak both of them...

[resonant]

When you forget the word, can you fill in the word in the other language? -- or do you forget them both?

[nnozomi]

When you forget the word, can you fill in the word in the other language? -- or do you forget them both?

It varies! Sometimes I can come up with the word I want in one language, not necessarily the relevant one for the moment, and sometimes neither of them come to mind. ("Can you get the, you know, the soup server thing?" when what I want to say is either "ladle" or "o-tama" but I can't bring to mind either one...)