{"id":935,"date":"2010-05-17T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=935"},"modified":"2010-05-17T12:00:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T16:00:03","slug":"onomamnesia-whos-the-lucky-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=935","title":{"rendered":"Onomamnesia: Who&#8217;s the lucky lady?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v. <\/em> To be unable to remember the name of a person you are speaking to, even though you&#8217;ve had a long-standing, and perhaps even an intimate relationship. <em>n.<\/em> An inability to remember a person&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/lady.gif\" alt=\"Who's the lucky lady?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Onomamnesia<\/strong>:  \/<em>-o-no-ma-mne-zhi-a-<\/em>\/ Woke up one morning and said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Good morning, Sue\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to the woman still sleeping next to me. Given the fact that my wife\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name is not Sue, it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sit well with her. Claiming ONOMAMNESIA didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t work. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get out of that one? I mean other than to find a good divorce attorney? <em>Etymology:<\/em>  ONOMA (fr. Greek) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c name;<br \/>\nAMNESIA (fr. Greek) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c forgetfulness<br \/>\n <em>Created by:<\/em> XMbIPb.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mementia<\/strong>:  \/<em>m\u00c4\u201cmensh\u00c9\u2122<\/em>\/ When Mike was little, his brother shot him in the ear with a BB gun. The pellet lodged in his brain in the tiny spot that normally stores names. Dr. Whitecoat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s term for his condition is mementia. He calls his wife, Mimi  honey, sweetie, even \u00e2\u20ac\u009dHey, Lady\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. The only name he seems to be able to remember is his son, Me2. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  me (the name I call myself) + dementia (a chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Mementia:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2010-05-13: 10:09:00<\/em> <br \/>Memerable word<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Oblivinom<\/strong>:  \/<em>-\u00c9\u2122&#8217;bl\u00c9\u00aav\u00c9\u00aanom-<\/em>\/ &#8220;Oblivinom is known to men for decades: the inability to remember names of familiar individuals.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Oblivinom should not be confused with oblivinomnom, which expresses itself in not being able to remember what one has eaten for dinner, even though that was just half an hour ago.&#8221; <em>Etymology:<\/em>  oblivion: the state of forgetfulness;  nomus: Latin for name <em>Created by:<\/em> freiflug.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Oblivinom:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Guest\">Guest<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2010-05-14: 12:37:00<\/em> <br \/>also: oblivinomnomnom &#8211; not being able to remember the name of the dinner you have eaten, even though you would recognize it if you saw it<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Amigonesia<\/strong>:  \/<em>am ego nees ya<\/em>\/ When what&#8217;s-her-name&#8230;oh, yeah, Julia was kissing what&#8217;s-his-name, oh yeah, Julio, his friend, what&#8217;s-his-name, oh yeah, Raoul, ask who is the lucky lady? At first, what&#8217;s his name, oh yeah, Julio was stumped, but he got over his amigonesia and realized that it was indeed, what&#8217;s her name, oh yeah, Julia, his wife. The affects of too much sangria and tequila, old age and what&#8217;s it called, oh yeah, amigonesia, had taken their toll on what&#8217;s his name, oh yeah, Julio. It was another game of what&#8217;s-it-called, oh yeah, Geriatric Jeopardy in full swing.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Amigo (Spanish for friend) &amp; Amnesia (partial or total loss of memory) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=lady\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=lady<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: v. To be unable to remember the name of a person you are speaking to, even though you&#8217;ve had a long-standing, and perhaps even an intimate relationship. n. An inability to remember a person&#8217;s name. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Onomamnesia: \/-o-no-ma-mne-zhi-a-\/ Woke up one morning and said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Good morning, Sue\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=935\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Onomamnesia: Who&#8217;s the lucky lady?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}