Trouble with word meanings?

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Do you ever have trouble with word meanings as in you tend to have a fixation with one meaning of a word?

For example, when I see or hear the word 'evacuate' I tend to associate it with 'evacuate the bowels'.
I know this may not be the context it's been used in, but it's like my mind has to scroll through one meaning to get to another, much like when you use Google and it shows you the most popular searches first.
But because I'm kind of fixated on one meaning, it's hard to get over that meaning and see it as another.

Does anyone else do this, or does your brain instantly skip to the right meaning?

Oh absolutely yes. Everytime I see "Failure to Evacuate" here I have to go through the exact same train of thought, with "No, Esme, you idiot" tacked on to the end of it now.

My brain skips to innuendo every time if it can , my brain it's broken .

Yes , I'm always struggling with determining the intended meaning of a word and placing it in the right context . Recently , I heard a statement on NPR that began with " New discoveries in science . . . . . . " but my kooky brain heard " Nudist coveries in science . . . . " and I'm staring off into space thinking , "what's a covery "? I could see why a nudist would want one but . . . .
It's no wonder that people see us as slow and weird .

Haha, that's exactly the thread that got me started on this train of thought, because all I can think of is 'constipated'.

Well, mine is broken in exactly the same way if that makes you feel any better...probably not.

I have a good vocabulary, but I thought of "evacuating the bowels," too. I had to laugh when I saw this post.

No trouble with the meanings of words.

LOTS of trouble with people who change the meanings of words to support their claims...

it's not my worst problem , not the same thing but I just scrolled through the board titles and I must of read two board titles together because I swear above the Haven was a board called Love & Hating

Oh, let me make it worse. I have a cat, love her dearly, she has to take lactulose every day because otherwise she will indeed fail to evacuate. So I have taught her to take it from a 1 mL oral syringe, and she cooperates nicely, while I sing to her a la Paul Simon:

oh my little Lulu cat
Lactulose it calls your name
It say now who do
Who do you think you're foolin'?
You're a constipated cat
And you gotta have your kitty lube
yo mama loves ya
loves ya
gets down on her knees and hugs ya
ooo I
love ya like a rock
rock ya like a rock
hey cat I love ya

(Yes, it's quite easy to see how I ended up living alone. I do realize this.)

^

But you're not living alone.

Failure to Evacuate would be a great name for comedy romance set a nursing home

wish I could write proper sentences ^in

Last edited by SaveFerris on 25 Sep 2018, 5:19 pm, edited 1 time in total.

better still, an indie rock band

Exactly.
By the time you've come back from the tangent, you've missed the train, so to speak.

Mine too and that can be pretty frightening coming from an old lady! (Okay, that kind of thought makes “lady” questionable!)

Firm alarm drills in grades school? I dunno.

Somewhere along the line in my childhood I heard the word "evacuate" as an order to folks to leave a building long before I ever heard it used in the medical sense. So if anything for me its the opposite progression.

Im a visual thinker so I suppose some doctor mustve used the word medically. So I imagined my body as a big building and the food I ate that day as kids in the building - so the visual was kinda the same. So I got the meaning.