Voted For: Slippedcognizant

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: pond + err + or

Sentence: I had this great idea for a new flavor of frozen yogurt but then my brain had a ponderror and I don't know what it was any more.

Etymology: ponder + error

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Created by: geoamnesia

Pronunciation:

Sentence: The thought came, saw and fled in a nanosecond, leaving me with that familiar feeling of ifonlyness.

Etymology: If + only - a mental and emotional condition common to people with short memories, or no memory at all.

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ēvapidərāshən

Sentence: Joan has given up any thoughts of thinking. She has resigned the real world, where you have to remember stuff, to join the e-world, where your IQ can be measured in gigabytes. Her **smart phone** is brighter than she is. If she has a thought, she better get it down in her notes app or it will succumb to evapidoration. A friend asks if she wants to meet at a particular restaurant. Before you can blink, she is reading the menu and texting a reservation. Just don*t ask her to share her thoughts. She doesn*t have time for those anymore.

Etymology: evaporation (cease to exist) + vapid (offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging - made of vapors)

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Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: re-memb-er

Sentence: Sophie racked her brains to try and recall the witty comeback she was about to make to her nemesis at work. Unfortunately, her thoughts had switched inconveniently to what she needed to get at the shops on the way home and could only rememberr something totally inadequate.

Etymology: remember (the act of memory) + err (to make a mistake) + er (an expression which indicates uncertainty)

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: thnort

Sentence: yet another thnought had slipped through the cracks in his brain

Etymology: thought, nought

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COMMENTS:

This is lovely to say out loud. - petaj, 2007-05-22: 03:06:00

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Created by: treyb

Pronunciation: Ey-dee-dee

Sentence: Arg, aydeedee, I forgot what I was going to tell you.

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Created by: guesser

Pronunciation: dis-brain-Ea

Sentence: I don't know which is worse, disbrainia or brain freeze, both make my head hurt!

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Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: thred-rift

Sentence: I had just the perfect final thought for my paper, but then I lost hold of it and the next minute it was threadrift.

Etymology: Thread (as in thread of an idea or thought) + drift (to move away)

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Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: GAWN-sept

Sentence: Dexter was usually full of ideas, but his latest one rapidly turned into a gonecept when his manager suddenly asked Dexter to describe it.

Etymology: Gone (vanished) + concept (idea)

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COMMENTS:

love it! - galwaywegian, 2012-09-14: 08:02:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: sliptkägnəzənt

Sentence: Much like the old quote from the Three Stooges, ”I’m trying to think but nothing happens” John can lose a thought before it he can even finish formulating it. In a slippedcognizant moment he can even forget the Alamo.

Etymology: slipped cog (mental mistake) + cognizant (having knowledge or being aware of)

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