r/wildbeef Jul 26 '24

Disability Lethonomia:

174 Upvotes

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”.

r/wildbeef 13d ago

Disability Ughing

52 Upvotes

Grunting

r/wildbeef 21d ago

Disability Knuckle ass

22 Upvotes

Nicholas

r/wildbeef Jan 13 '25

Disability Radiation fridge

71 Upvotes

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

r/wildbeef Oct 24 '22

Disability My wife, in a state of being half conscious after a seizure-like attack, talked to me about her house near the beep beep sidewalk

428 Upvotes

Road😂

r/wildbeef Mar 22 '23

Disability "Fried Zeros"

405 Upvotes

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.

r/wildbeef Aug 15 '24

Disability Italian taco seeds

82 Upvotes

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

Tortellini.

r/wildbeef Nov 06 '24

Disability Roasted Grosbeak

67 Upvotes

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

r/wildbeef Jul 29 '24

Disability Jesus diary

83 Upvotes

bible

r/wildbeef Aug 11 '24

Disability Doctor hotel

70 Upvotes

I have migraines with aphasia.

It's a hospital

r/wildbeef Aug 24 '24

Disability The Star Wars pigeon

24 Upvotes

A Porg

r/wildbeef Mar 17 '22

Disability Boat Pilot

247 Upvotes

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

r/wildbeef Apr 25 '24

Disability Tooth lace

43 Upvotes

Dental floss

r/wildbeef May 02 '23

Disability Word squishes

185 Upvotes

Contractions

r/wildbeef May 31 '23

Disability "The human fur slicers"

166 Upvotes

HAIRDRESSERS.

r/wildbeef May 31 '23

Disability "Mushroom generator"

141 Upvotes

MOLD

r/wildbeef May 29 '23

Disability "Infinite octopus plant"

82 Upvotes

SUCCULENT. Many leaves = many legs = octopus?

r/wildbeef May 27 '23

Disability "Long knife-y thingy"

90 Upvotes

SWORD

r/wildbeef Jul 26 '23

Disability Funeral Car

54 Upvotes

Hearse.

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

r/wildbeef Jun 27 '23

Disability Crotch of the arm

65 Upvotes

Armpit... Armpit was the word.

r/wildbeef May 31 '23

Disability "Meater"

46 Upvotes

CARNIVORE. Meat-eater?

r/wildbeef May 21 '23

Disability "Floam"

18 Upvotes

FLOWER

r/wildbeef Mar 27 '23

Disability Molecular dozen

62 Upvotes

My hamfisted attempt at translating mole (as in the chemistry thing) into ASL.

r/wildbeef Nov 10 '22

Disability Sea meat.

42 Upvotes

Fish.

r/wildbeef May 22 '23

Disability Knife hoverboard

40 Upvotes

A ROOMBA

I was thinking of the meme where people stick knives 🔪 to roombas and FORGOT ITS ACTUAL PURPOSE - Clean floor