Draw Fewer Blanks with ‘Tip of My Tongue’
October 27, 2008We’ve all been there.
You’re working on that big speech or that important paper, and you’re on a roll. The words are zooming from your brain to your fingertips as they dance across the keyboard like a boy band on MTV – and then it happens. You’re stopped in your tracks, drawing a blank in a momentary lapse of vocabulary. What is the word you’re looking for?
A proud “word nerd” (I’ve got a T-shirt that says as much), I hate those moments.
Hopefully, though, those moments will be fewer and farther between now thanks to University of Tampa graduate student Chirag Mehta and his web app, Tip of My Tongue. It’s a bit more crude than my standard web app description, but all I can say is that Tip of My Tongue is like Gas-X for brain farts. Simply input as much as you can about the word you’re searching for, whether it be a few letters, approximate word length or even a sound-alike word. Tip of My Tongue will do the rest.
Pitched as a tool designed to help you “find that word that you’ve been thinking about all day but just can’t seem to remember,” Tip of My Tongue may not help when you find yourself stumbling through “uhhs” and “umms” during a live presentation, but it could help spark that “eureka” moment when all you really want to do is keep your rhythm as you work toward a written project.
This sounds fabulous! As a fellow(ette) word nerd, I HATE when this happens to me! This is definitely going in the favorites list.
I’ve used it a couple of times already, and it has amazed me with its accuracy in those instances. Very cool tool.
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