Actually, I need to work on my vocabulary
Not its breadth, but its retrieval rate. Frequently I find myself in conversation and suddenly stuck for the word I want to use - often quite an obvious one. I end up trying to think of the word, whilst another part of my brain searches frantically for an alternative, and all too often I end up using the latter, especially, as per Sod's Law, when it's not quite the right word for the job.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:25, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Oh, I hate that so much
Both in English and Spanish, but more in Spanish. When you finally give up and say the alternative word, with that feeling in your brain that no, it's not exactly that, there's a better one, and you're not using it.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:28, Reply)

Oddly enough, I've had it happen bilingually
A bit like when you Google something slightly obscure and the third result is some Russian website, I have had a few rare occasions in which the frantically-searching part of my brain runs out of English options and returns with "I don't know, but this is what it would be in French..."
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:38, Reply)

Oh, yes!
It's well funny when that happens. I say it, hoping it sounds like an English word and people will understand... but they usually don't.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:39, Reply)

I get this all the time
I think it's just the ageing process starting to take it's toll...
(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:35, Reply)

Don't talk like that
You're just a kid!
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:36, Reply)

I'm only five years younger than you!

(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:55, Reply)

Just a kid

(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:57, Reply)