"Hey Ceema did you bring bread?"
Oops!! I forgot.
Sorry.
"Where's your phone?
I've been trying to call you."
Oh!.... I left it at the cafe.
"And did you call me Niharika?"
I totally forgot.
Sorry I forgot.
I forgot.
I forgot how many of you use this phrase 100 times every single
day? Frankly this phrase I forgot is overused and you've got
to stop using it.
However, what are the other phrases that we can use?
Well there are several other ways to say I forgot and today's
lesson is going to show you what you could use.
Instead of saying the boring, I forgot
you could instead say I am drawing a blank here.
Now when do we use this a lot of times when you are giving a presentation or
narrating an incident all of a sudden your mind glow goes black
and that is when you can say I'm drawing a blank here.
This is a much better phrase to say.
Instead of I forgot or you could say
my memory seems to be very evasive.
Now this word evasive, it basically means
that it is hard to catch.
So if someone is running away from you, they're being evasive, you cannot catch them because they're
getting away.
So your memory also seems to be evasive.
So the next time you forget something don't say I forgot, you can say my
memory seems to be evasive.
I have another very special phrase for you.
It goes like this.
It completely slipped my mind.
Okay There are a lot of things that we don't remember because there's so many
things that we have to take care of every single day, like I forgot to buy
bread.
Right?
So what happened to me, it completely slipped my mind because I had other things to do
right, but I won't say I forgot, I will say it completely slipped my
mind.
Now.
Another very interesting phrase to use.
You could say I seem to have the memory of a goldfish.
Okay, this is a really funny phrase, you know why?
Because the goldfish believe it or not, has a memory of only
15 seconds.
Can you beat that?
That's a rather short memory.
So when you're kind of making fun of yourself, you can say oh I seem to have the
memory of a goldfish and that's a really cute way and a very interesting way of saying
I forgot now.
Another very nice way to say I forgot is I just can't jog my memory.
So jogging your memory is like refreshing your memory.
Okay, so as I mentioned to you, we have so many things that we need to remember and
we can't seem to remember it.
So if you can jog your memory, it basically means you cannot refresh your memory.
Here's another phrase we could use, you could say I completely blacked out.
Now let me tell you that Blacking out is
actually a a serious health issue.
So there are some people who go through a lot of mental trauma or physical trauma because
of being in an accident where they have periods, you know, a long period
of time where they don't remember what happened to them that is called Blacking out.
Let's say you fall unconscious, you black out.
So don't use this unless you really had a mental or physical
trauma because of which you can remember.
Okay, so that's when you use Blacked out.
The other interesting phrase would be, I think I'm having a memory
lapse.
Okay, again, there are some people who are older, like maybe in their sixties and their
seventies, they seem to have a memory lapse again, this happens with
age and if you think there are some people who have this
problem, you could say something like he's probably having a memory lapse.
Another nice phrase to use but I want to give you something more
interesting.
So you could use, I can't seem to get it off the top of my head.
Now, this happens to everybody, right?
Like I said, we all have so much of things to do every single day and it is
impossible for people to remember to remember every single thing and therefore you can
say I can't seem to get it off the top of my head, which means it's not the
first thing in my mind and that is why I could not remember.
Okay.
Alright, let's look at some other ways we could say, I'm afraid I can't
remember or I can't recall.
This is a very straightforward way of saying I forgot, which is something you must use
if you don't want to use.
The other fancy ones.
The other one would be, I wouldn't remember even if my life
depended on it.
This is a very sarcastic way of saying that you have a hopeless memory.
I mean there are certain things that I can't remember, like math problems for example, you
could teach me all day and I wouldn't remember even if my life depended
on it.
So this is a sarcastic but a really interesting way of saying I forgot and then we
have, I can't take a trip down memory lane.
Memory lane is basically your past and in order to remember you've got to
take a trip down memory lane.
But unfortunately when you forget, you can say, well sorry, I can't take a
trip down memory lane.
I have another very interesting expression for you which is I hope I'm
not suffering from amnesia.
Now, this is only a joke.
Okay, because this word amnesia refers to a mental condition,
a deteriorating mental condition where a person loses their memory
in their old age mostly.
So when someone is suffering from amnesia, they even forget who they are.
So when you're saying this, it's only a joke, you cannot use it on people who are
actually suffering from amnesia.
Okay, so you can say, oh I hope I'm not suffering from amnesia.
It's a joke, A very sarcastic way of saying I keep forgetting.
Okay, so these are the really interesting and very funny expressions that
you can use and you must use the next time you forget.
I hope you don't forget to use these expressions.
Okay, so I'll be back with some more lessons until then keep practicing, keep
learning and keep using new ways to say I forgot.