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, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

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)