Lethological Grammatacator

[LazarusLong42]

I love this!! The only problem I see with it is that there is no -ac suffix, and as such the word should be "Grammaticator."

<looks around>

What?

 

[Gez]

And beside, it's lethonomical, not lethological. Your sig is correct, but not the name of the item.

Etymologically, the river Lethe is the one that makes you forget your life (Ancient Greek cosmology stuff, there were a number a infernal rivers, styx, acheron, lethe, maybe another, I don't remember ).

(Incidentally, for my amateurish knowledge of Greek roots, lethology sounds like science of amnesia, and lethonomia sounds like observation of amnesia. Wouldn't oblivion of names be more properly lethonymia, for oblivion of nouns?)

 

[Starglim]

Perhaps it should be "Lexicological".


edit: Phlegethon, the river of fire.

 

[Ovinomancer]

The proper word is indeed Lethologica. Between my wife and I it is one of our favorite words. As an english teacher, my wife believes that this is the single most impressive item ever created or discussed.

 

[Gez]

The proper word is indeed Lethologica.

Googling (not the most accurate grammatical tool, I know) yield me a number of lethonomia and lethonomical, but not the slightest lethology or lethological.

Between my wife and I it is one of our favorite words. As an english teacher, my wife believes that this is the single most impressive item ever created or discussed.

Bah! I see you lethologica, and I raise you a supercoquelicocancieux. (Totally obsolete word, meaning "better than the song of a rooster" ) It's as good as Mary Poppins' superfragilisticthingilicious. Supercockelicocancious. Sing it!

 

[Felix]

As an english teacher, my wife believes that this is the single most impressive item ever created or discussed.

Awww, shucks

And while I don't like to divulge my sources, Peter Bowler's Superior Person's Little Book of Words does list lethologica and lethonomia as seperate and distinct words. And it's a wonderful source obscure and anacronistic words.