September 26 2011

Word of the Week: Cryptomnesia

CRYPTOMNESIA (krip-tarm-ne-zha) – when a lapsed memory returns in the false guise of an original thought [Greek kryptos, hidden + amnesia, forgetfulness] Judges hold a dim view of defendants using cryptomnesia as a plagiarism defence.

Comments

RobT — 26 September at 08:34AM

Confabulatory cry: "Ptomaine's poisoning!"

Mauve — 26 September at 08:35AM

Good name for a band. George Harrison and the Cryptomnesiacs

Boniface — 26 September at 10:17AM

Defective memory making spy mentor crack in The Company (12)

RobT — 26 September at 10:20AM

Coptic seminary eschews chichi fringes: out with the new, in with the old!

Geoff Bailey — 26 September at 11:08AM

More synaptic false memory claimed original.

RM — 26 September at 11:21AM

Without union leader taking drug, I prosecute many offenders for unintentional plagiarism

Sam — 26 September at 12:13PM

Funny how things coincide - came across this word in book four days ago and thought at the time I must look this up!

Em — 26 September at 12:30PM

Tracy mopes in confusion, making new (old?) memories

SK — 26 September at 12:46PM

Dodgy companies try to deny prior knowledge (12)

RobT — 26 September at 01:08PM

DA: I think you forgot an 'n' in your definition...

DA — 26 September at 01:26PM

Thanks RobT - my forgetfulness has been remedied.

Criseyde — 26 September at 01:39PM

Body-place meditation on Greek islands renewed memories of old.

Criseyde — 26 September at 01:52PM

The LA hood heard only half the drum - in sea? at sea? - memory not what it used to be.

Criseyde — 26 September at 02:22PM

Manic's poetry? Erroneous recollections!

RobT — 26 September at 04:40PM

Ren & Stimpy coin a violent school of thought.

RobT — 26 September at 05:10PM

Tweak, please?

Ren & Stimpy coin a violent mind-blowing portmanteau.

DA — 26 September at 05:49PM

Kudos Rob for even SEEING the Ren & Stimpy luggage. It's a vibrant clue. You really XL in the anagram stakes, ala your dazzling Craig Thomson.

(BTW, did you see the column shout, and Wordwit to that effect?)

RobT — 26 September at 05:58PM

No i'm sorry i didn't see but i imagined it. Brain X.

Boniface — 26 September at 06:29PM

Yep, I agree - Ren & Stimpy take the cake.

Criseyde — 27 September at 06:21AM

RobT, does you anagram fodder have an extra N and I? How about Ren & Stimpy Co or Ren Stimpy &Co?

RobT — 27 September at 06:25AM

Criseyde, that's why i added "coin". There is only 'one' Ren &Stimpy',,, to add morr would be silly.

Criseyde — 27 September at 06:37AM

I knew I should have asked! And I did delete 'or am I missing something' before posting. If DA and Boniface got it then who's little old me to question? (But I'll be honest, I still don't get it. Maybe a coffee will help.)

RobT — 27 September at 07:02AM

2 out of 3 ain't bad. B/C/DA are all good role models in this caper.

I am sure there is a better way to clue it up (to paraphrase that irksome Masterchef verb) but after an hour or two that's the best I could prepare for the judge.

DA — 27 September at 07:53AM

Dodgy recollection roughly encompasses Ren & Stimpy broadcast with love

A possibility...

C[RYPT-O-MNESI]A

Criseyde — 27 September at 07:55AM

Tres gallant, RobT. After my fox paw with extraneous letters in a Margaret Olley anagram I may have become hypervigilant.

Criseyde — 27 September at 08:10AM

Now, how is anyone going to follow DA's rendition?

Back to anagrams, I'd be glad of feedback on my attempt at the 'nesia' part in my LA hood clue above. How's 'at sea' as the anagrind? (I was quite chuffed at that clue, but I don't mind having my bubble burst.)

RobT — 27 September at 08:20AM

I doubt many LA hoods can swim so it's perhaps a dodgy surface.

Criseyde — 27 September at 08:26AM

Ok. It was alluding to imperfect memory of what was said. Maybe I should have put it in quotations.

LR — 27 September at 09:33AM

I'm pretty happy with this one.

"Crap! Not my ideas..." DA forgot puzzle plagiarism

Criseyde — 27 September at 09:43AM

Brilliant LR!!

DA — 27 September at 10:00AM

We have a new winner. Ren & Stimpy is the miracle unearthing, but LR's tight tale and suave reductive anagram: ker-ching. That's a dazzling clue.

LR — 27 September at 10:58AM

Thanks DA and Criseyde. If this clue turns up in a future puzzle, don't try to blame a memory lapse ;)