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Anytime you say “uh, what’s that word again?”

So you’re thinking of a concept, you can picture it and it’s impact on your environment, but can’t quite remember the word for it.

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Or, you reached a point in the Markov chain where none of the next guesses rank high enough if the whole paragraph is taken into account. It often feels like that, in fact, you can’t figure it out until you take another “route”.

Of course, my anecdote is just as valid as yours. My point is we have no freaking idea what’s going on and shouldn’t jump to conclusions.

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