There's a German word that my brother loved when he was picking up the language:
bezeihungsweise (I can't promise to spelling accuracy)
It translates nearest in English to: "that is to say"

So, when he was trying to make himself understood, and in the positional necessities of that language he found he was going wrong and not soon to recover, he would pause, say "bezeihungsweise" and start all over again!