Sometimes when I am saying something and thinking of what to say next I see something and say it instead because it distracted me. Is there a phrase for this occurence?
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That is a young person's problem. Old people have the opposite: they can't think of the word they want or any synonym or any word that describes it in any way. "Intellectual" is a frequent memory hole for me. It is so annoying that I wrote the word on a Stick-It and put it on the edge of my monitor.