I remember, especially in my early years of ME/CFS, I had some intriguing language difficulty phenomena: in addition to forgetting words, losing vocabulary, and having sudden difficulty in spelling words, perhaps the oddest language symptom I experienced was the frequent selecting of incorrect words while talking, often in a bizarre way, where I would select a word which was incorrect, but the incorrect word was from the same category as the right word – for example, I might incorrectly say “pun” when I meant to say “irony” – both are in the same category of literary devices.
Has anyone else had this, where you say the wrong word, but that wrong word is from the same general category as the right word that you should of said?