Adults do this too, in foreign languages. It's particularly funny when you've studied for the sake of reading literature, and therefore forget simple words. Had a friend who, when learning Chinese, forgot the word for "sad" and said "there is an economic downturn in my brain".
My sensei had a story like that.She takes her entire Japanese class to Japan every 2-3 years. Once, a student was being asked what drink they would want. They forget the name for "apple" (ringo) juice, and instead asked for "the orange's cousin"
@@lasercraft32 At the Super Mario Bros 30th anniversary festival, Miyamoto confirmed that Mario's full name is Mario Mario and Luigi's is Luigi Mario, so it is canon.
My little sister once chugged a glass of milk, put the cup down and proudly announced "I'M DRUNK" she was probably 3 or something, and she was trying to say the drink version of "I'm full" and that's what she came up with.
@@NoGoatsNoGlory. "Waterboarding, or “water t0rture,” is a brutal practice whereby an interrogator straps a prisoner to a board, places a wet rag in his mouth, and by pouring water through the rag induces controlled drowning."
@@osheridan okay thanks, I honestly thought it may have had something to do with a sexual fetish, but I'm glad to know what it is now. So what was it again? A wet. . . Rag . . . Okie dokie, this is valuable information for me as I am currently dealing with some "*guests*" who are being very . . . "*Uncooperative*". Hope you have a wonderful rest of your day ❤️☺️
I was in the kitchen doing the dishes. My brother walked in and asked what I was up to. I, in all seriousness, replied "food laundry". I am an adult. 😅
Fun fact: the kid who said Mario’s full name was Mario Mario was actually right. Miyamoto declared this during Mario’s 30th anniversary in 2015. Edit: as some have pointed out in the replies, Mario’s full name was also Mario Mario in the old live-action film, it was just in 2015 when Mario’s full name was declared as canon.
Ok but can we talk about the fact that "the story behind my eyes when I'm asleep" is legitimately a beautiful expression? Sounds like it could come out of a song
That one about calling the grocery store a food library was totally just lifted out of the episode Metalocalypse where the band goes to the store and Toki asks "What is this place?" and Skwisgaar replies "I believe this is called the Food Library."
It's always fun to watch the things people not intimately familiar with a language come up with when they can't find a specific word. You should do a sequel with adults.
@@Damian_1989 I mean, it would happen a lot with people that have any language as a second language, for that language. This is even how words are made up ... "what do we call this ball sport played on foot? Football? Sure."
I’m proud that I guessed a lot of the mystery terms correctly, especially cheese sugar, stabby grabbies, and mouth bangs. I work with kids so I hear these types of things all the time, kids are hilarious.
@@Matt_Rose Do you go to a new shop every time you do one of these or do these people begin to recognise you as the guy who always comes ins says some weird shit as if its normal and walks off?
As a child I had an epiphany. _What if water is like all one thing? It’s not like there’s WATERS, right? So does that mean when I get water I’m drinking a PIECE of a bigger water?_ And so I promptly went to my mom and said “Can I have a piece of water?” She broke down laughing, got me my *piece* of water, and I embarrassedly swore off thinking for the rest of my life.
@@thedemolitionsexpertsledge5552 oh you think it's easy passing as an ancient greece philosopher? go on, become a greek philosopher then, you CAN'T! CHECKMATE 😎 (onironically I thinking greek philosopher not as easy as people think, very high bar to pass when you consider that their stuff become analyzed for hours today even tho yesterday there was no science and little to no knowledge)
I love how Matt casually confusing the cashiers has become a staple. I imagine that eventually they'll just accept his weird phrases as normal behavior.
Random things I say: Sleep deprived = sleep drunk (so tired you're practically intoxicated) Forehead = billboard Sherbet = sherbert Cat = god damn fur gremlin with no brain, absolutely stupid af with a cute face Small dog = a lil yipper Big dog = big woofer Duck = quack quacks Potato = potato Tomato = tomato (Good luck figuring out which ones are the stuff I actually say)
Had one with my goddaughter. Her parents & several relatives smoked so much, an entire floor of their place was completely full of smoke to the point where it was stinging the eyes & the kid just sat down, wiped tears from her eyes & just stared at her hands in confusion, saying "I'm... crying?"
I ran a D&D campaign where one of the player characters was telepathic. The party would often use this to tell each other things they didn’t want NPCs to hear. They called it the “psychic group chat.”
3:23 i used to say "i'm full of that" when i had eaten enough of something (probably healthy) and wanted something actually appetizing. we need a word for that
Once I was playing outside when I was little, and I had this weird anxious feeling I couldn't explain at the time, so I ran inside the house screaming “I’M HAVING AN EMOTION”
I fondly remember a distant cousin of mine who was eight at the time, that attempted to remember the word “Jacuzzi”. Ended up calling it a “people boiling pot” 💀
As an eastern european, its funny how a lot of these are exactly the way words in our languages were made. Someone who understands things well trying to translate (or portray a general meaning of) things to English would totally say something similar to 1/4th of the stuff here. Writing this after re-memory and another one came up which are way too perfect while also having quite a bit of complexity as to why they're perfect to be a coincidence
Your insistence on keeping the formatting of the original comment intact while translating it into VO work makes your delivery fucking perfect. You're so fucking hilarious Matt, keep yourself in good health ❤ We love you
@@viljamtheninja it's not just the movie my guy, "The first notable use of "Luigi Mario" was in the 1993 live-action film adaptation. In September 2015, at the Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary festival, Miyamoto stated that Mario's full name was Mario Mario."
there's actually a term for many of these examples called "idiosyncratic speech", which is where someone uses normal words in abnormal ways (e.g., calling milk "cereal water"). i have autism so i used to struggle alot with idiosyncratic speech when i was younger, but now i do much better with expressing myself in ways that others understand.
My kid used to call any day where it was sunny Sunday. Night was, of course, “not Sunday”. He also had a funny habit of using measurements of time to emphasize things. Instead of, “I love you a lot,” we got “I love you three weeks.” If he was very enthusiastic he might even love you, “a whole year”
You know how there's the phrase "I love you to the moon and back"? I was into astronomy so I used to escalate that to things like the whole solar system, etc.
I used to call Parmesan cheese “snow cheese” and would ask for “snow cheese” when I’d eat pasta. Now it’s a family thing we STILL use, especially for the kids in the family. Still proud of that.
I do this still sometimes, and I've been an adult for 8 years. It's less of a "I don't know the word" and more of "I'm currently blanking on the word and I'm scrambling through my readily available vocabulary to find it but can't, so I shall improvise." It's really is a fantastic source for new -isms.
Yes! This is totally normal and definitely happens to adult native speakers (not just kids or non-natives). I think you unintentionally did just that, since there's a name for a new word, it's called a "neologism", but new-ism definitely works too :). Anyways, I love these kind of things, just shows how creative people can be!
Vaguely reminds me of how my brother, as a child, had an epiphany he needed to share with the world. He shouted gleefully, "If honeybees make honey, bumblebees make BUMBLE!"
Both me and my sisters had weird ways to describe items when we were kids. Apparently I didn't know the name for chocolate and called it "dollar cake" . My eldest sister used to call menus "cafe books" and my middle sister used to call winnie the pooh "Window Poo". We get reminded of them every now and then
My 11 year old brother had never seen a kangaroo before. One day he found a little kangaroo plush on the floor of my room. He picked it up slowly, and with an expression of awe and confusion, he gasped: "Pocket animal?"
Two funny things that my younger brother used to say: Instead of yesterday he would say "Lasterday", probably because he heard us say things like "last week" and "last month" and thought that the same rule should apply to days. He loved to make up questions for us to answer, but if we got it wrong instead of just saying "Wrong!", "that's not right!" or even "incorrect", he would say "Discorrect" with the most blank unemotional face I've ever seen on a six year old.
My brother in law says "after bed" instead of tomorrow. He's still a kid but probably too old to not know the word tomorrow and he's been taught it multiple times, he just doesn't use is 💀
I remember our church serving breakfast for a special occasion (they had put the chairs in the room with tables) and I remember when I was getting sausage, the grill had a squirrel tail at the end of it which would make a squeak sound and twitch anytime the person took meet from the grill it was in. This fascinated me and so I called it “squirrel meat”. I still do to this day because of the momentous occasion!
When my cousin was 3, he didn’t know what zebras were. He thought the zebra in his toy zoo set was called a “jail horse” and would get upset if I corrected him.
My mom and I were talking about my older brothers and when they would graduate (This was a few years ago). My little sister was there and I was trying to teach her the names of the four years of high school here in the US. Freshman, sophomore, junior and senior. I told her, “After they’re done being seniors, they’ll graduate.” She got so excited to add to the conversation and said with a big smile, “And then they’ll be fishermen!” It took my mom and I about three or so minutes to realize she meant college freshmen-
Greetings, for I have never seen you before in my life :D To be fair, my brain evaporated once and I used "super duper seniors" for college sophomores because when I was younger I thought super senior was just another term for college freshman.
@@yeahbutwhy8788 Why hello for the first time ever, my very favorite stranger c: Okay but super duper senior is so fucking adorable, I can’t- I’m obsessed with English and vocabulary, so it’s rare for me to have these moments, but I was once trying to explain Toki Pona to my dad by saying, “Not every word has a concrete definition,” but I couldn’t think of the word concrete, so I ended up saying that not all the words have cement definitions-
I'm sorry, but as a linguistics student, this is really interesting to me, particularly in terms of how logical they are. Like, a lot of these are probably correct in a different language, or at least very close to something you would say.
Yeah! There are clear patterns here of a productive system of compounding / modifiers that allows the children to work around the forgotten/unknown word by analogy in a predictable way. Just gotta tap into Child Logic to understand why the things are analogous. And the system clearly sticks around. I find the moment where Matt objects to "finger legs" as toes interesting in this way. His argument is basically that "leg fingers" are toes because they're the fingers attached to the legs, while "finger legs" are arms because they're the legs that have fingers. And that *makes sense* in comparison to most other compounds in English (and Norwegian, which is where my bias towards calling these constructions compounds comes from).
It's also common with processing disorders and people who are strong visual thinkers. Basically, you might create incredible things, but you're likely to be mistaken for an idiot your whole life because most everyone values verbal communication first and fast, and your value increases with how verbal you are.
Like how the French term for "potato" roughly means "dirt apple"? I know that's not an exact translation, but I don't think they were referring to the planet.
I often went on holiday to Scotland as a kid, and we'd go to a small arcade that had driving games and coin pushers and what not. Not knowing the word arcade at a young age, I dubbed it "The Television Shop". The name stuck and my relatives and family friends all refer to it by that name as well.
Cousin used to call snails "nables". We also all collectively decided the plant-watering extension tool thing for the garden hose was called "Fred Ed" and none of us have any idea how that happened
While in college (that's uni to you Matt) I spent my summers as a janitor at a local church/preschool. One day I believed to have left my broom in the principal's office, but, unable to recall the word for broom, I asked the principal, who was also my former teacher in kinder, if she knew the whereabouts of my "sweepie-sweep". Needless to say, she was extraordinarily disappointed in me.
I had to book a JetBoat ride for my husband at Queenstown NewZealand but I had a full-on horrible headache, I asked the cashier for a ticket on a _"woosh-woosh"_ (moved my hand sideways) ship 😅 got him the best seat at the front 😂😂
i went to the psychologist today, and she made me define a bunch of words. this is pretty much how it went. for anyone confused, it was part of the cognition test ffs
@@tobyandahalfwhy? I’m sorry if it’s personal was it testing a learning disability? I can’t imagine my psychologist asking me to define what a stop sign is. “I came here for Xanax”
This really gives a little insight on both psychology and mechanisms of how potentially first languages had formed in the past. I think we can study it through kids. When I was 5 or 6 yo I wrote a little story, and that notebook has survived until today. There I found some peculiar words like "green usefullness" or "knockable giant"
can you elaborate on said "green usefullness" and "knockable giant"? do you recall what it meant for you back then because i can't think of anything from the top of my hair bed
@@The800pa it's hard to tell about "knockable giant", because English isn't my native language and I had to adapt that word combination when I wrote the comment; direct translation would be smth like " flickable-on-the-forehead giant" (Context: charactes see a giant robot) considering "green usefulness" it's much easier. from the context it was some kind of fuel used to fly over the lake
My friend once forgot the word “knee”, so she called it her “leg elbow”. Would’ve been cute if she said this when we were kids but uh, no. We’re 17 and she said this a couple months ago.
who's to say saying silly/stupid shit at 17 can't be cute?? it's at the very least funny. apologies if i misunderstood the tone of your comment & you're just being sarcastic, i can't tell
@@catsungdae I totally agree! I was just being sarcastic! It’s difficult to convey/perceive the proper tone over text so I understand. It was definitely very funny! My friend group and I say the wackiest things and it’s one of the things I love the most! I’ve made a quote book and it’s filled with funny things like that!
@carlienotcharlie2005 oh that's awesome!! i too write silly things said down in a notebook somewhere (or just in my notes app)! i'm also 17 and i just hate the idea that "adults are supposed to be adulty!!!!! liking children's things and talking weird is so immature grgrgrrrrr!!!!" thank you for being cordial in your response!
@@catsungdae I use my notes app too! There was no need to be uncivil in my response seeing as how you weren’t uncivil in your original reply. Anyways, I hope you have a lovely day/night!
I remember when I was like...five. I, for some reason, completely forgot what a fart was. So I walk out of the bathroom. Terrified. Going to the living room where my whole family was, saying in the most fearful voice, "My bottom popped." My family died laughing so hard I forgot what I was afraid of and giggled too.
One time in choir we were singing a song in old Latin, and there was an English translation along with the original lyrics. When we switched back to the English translation I couldn't think of the word "English" and instead said "oh, we're singing human now?"
My grandma and I are forever messing up words. Yesterday I tried to tell her that I need new compression socks- ended up calling them "leg squeezies." She immediately knew what I meant.
