I’m not a grammar expert and English is not my first language but I think I used to say this before and I just ended up taking out the “what it is” and changed it for the thing I’m trying to remember:
There’s a thing that I don’t know the name of
Or
There’s a thing that I don’t know how to describe
Or
There’s a thing whose purpose is a mystery to me
Is that what you’re refering to? Sorry if it’s not. I don’t think any of the first three examples are correct, or at least they sound really weird to me.
Please do correct me if there’s an English mayor somewhere though!
It’s probably not as bad as some of the comments I’m reading here, but it was about Demon Salyer. I met my wife’s little cousin (she is 12yo) about a month ago, and she was talking about anime (Demon Slayer, in this case) and she asked me who my favorite character was.
I had finished the manga, so I told her that I didn’t have any because none of them really spoke to me and asked her what was her favorite. She said it was Shinobu because it was “her comfort character” (I had no clue what that meant at that moment), and not having thought about the fact that not everyone read the manga, I immediately said that:
spoiler
she was cool but it was a shame that she died a gruesome and slow death
I realized my fuck up when she started just tearing up, didn’t know what to do so I said I was really sorry and left.