Why do sometimes people forget what words mean?
149817
If you haven't used a word in a long time, or if that word is not part of your daily vocabulary, you don't use it, and eventually forget what it means.
71539
In my opinion he didn't mean it. Instead of apologizing it was a mistake, he said he didn't remember saying it. Some people don't have enough courage to admit. Forget is the easiest excuse which save him from explaining anything. You deserve someone better!
436252
Maybe because she doesn't remember anything, so she just assumes she has short term memory loss. Also, remembering you have short term memory loss is stored in long term memory.
127460
The brain doesn't store information on ordered cards like a library catalogue. It has an area where the idea of the noun is encoded, with connections to things relating to that noun; an area where the idea of an adjective is encoded, with connections to the areas that relate to the ideas behind that adjective (such as regions in the visual cortex or auditory cortex etc. that relate to the sensory information that forms the basis of the adjective); and connections between the two areas that facilitates the use of a given adjective for a given noun, mediated by connections that control grammatcal structures in language.
537872
maybe you have amnesia. but probably not. maybe you have a thyroid problem. maybe you just have a short term memory. i kno i do. check it out with a doctor if  your really worried,if not i recommend a keychain if you don't already have one (=
720419
I believe that it can.  Where hypnosis can be effective is in helping you recall.  What I mean is that it helps you get out of your own way.  I doubt the language was truly forgotten and that being around the language again would help refresh the memory.  Language in many ways is a habit that we acquire and sometimes we just need help in getting back that habit.  Where I can see hypnosis helping is in allowing us to reacquire that habit.  We don't have to think about what language we use, we just use it.  It is done on the subconscious level.  Automatically.  Where the difficulty comes in is where we have to stop and think about it.  This can cause us to think that task of relearning something might be more difficult than it is.  Your question allows me to make the following assumption that there is a base of knowledge and you are just trying to get that base back.  It would be different if you were trying to learn it the first time.
724693
You spelled it right, it is the pronunciation that most get wrong, they say gover-ment most of the time, people tend to forget there is a "N" in there.
264521
People's memories are different. I can remember hundreds of songs, stuff I used to sing when I was little or when I was a teen but there are times when I can't even remember where I put my wallet.
767400
I do it all the time and i'm not dyslexic, i put it down to the fact that i'm thinking too far ahead of what i'm saying and get confused or when i get too tired i can't even remember certain words or i say the complete different word like you did, almost like i'm not concentrating.If its really bad and upsetting you, go see someone to put your mind at rest.(no pun)
374234
it is slang or just lazy b/c what you really mean if you don't hear someone properly is "what did you say?"
1007533
I don't think this has anything to do with communication.  I think what it means is that words equal ideas.  If we don't have the word, the idea doesn't exist and we are, therefore, unable to explore a concept that can't exist in our own minds.
509033
for me to remember vocabulary words, i try to write down the words many times (so i could also remember the spelling) then put down the definition. from the definitions i try to make sentences. i patch the words with some of their synonyms to make them easier to understand. \n\nyou have to use those words when you want to remember them. it's always better that way. use them in essays, letters, etc. when i teach vocabulary words, the kids retain the words when i instruct them to use those words in their assignments.
144329
most people remember things through visual memory which is why they remember faces but not names.  me i just have pretty good memory so if i've met the person before most likely i'll remember the name.
152627
Wow tahts raelly itersenitng!\nThat's pretty cool the way our minds work... even though the words are scrambled, they're still understandable because the first and last letters.
567431
Happens to me all the time.  I feel like I am loosing my mind sometimes.  I was taking medication for years and that really did a number on my mind.  I am off the meds and finally able to sometimes remember 5 min ago.\n\nWait....what am I saying....I forgot...oh bother...
635802
I've been accused of having "selective amnesia". I've forgotten by whom. But given what I know of amnesia, some people remember some things and not others. Some people remember nothing at all. So ... The correct answer to your question, given amnesia and the way it works with various people, would be ... Yes & No. And I'll trust that we all remember that fact in the future. lol ;-) ~ Peace & Blessings ~
434848
Probably because after you first process the word visually and aurally, you start to think of connotations and implications and how it came to be a word or what it would look like backwards, and if you are a creative person it turns more into a word puzzle that needs to be figured out, like a modern sculpture. Or if you mean you say it repeatedly without being in proper context of a sentence of some kind, then it just becomes a group of phonemes and vowels.