A plea (trivia specialist)

[Peter McGraw]

At least for the Italians, such a word was coined, and such a person
immortalized, long ago by Giuseppe Verdi in his famous opera "La
Triviata."

(Sorry.  I'll go back to my room now.)

Peter

On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 10:33:14 -0500 Greg Pulliam <pulliam at IIT.EDU> wrote:

> How about "triviator"?  (Inspired by one of those obnoxious "Today's
> Aviators" airline ads.)
>
>
> >"Prof. Roly Sussex" <sussex at LINGUA.ARTS.UQ.EDU.AU> asks
> >
> >>>>>>
> >A colleague has asked me if there is a special term for an
> >expert in trivia. Apart from triviaphile and triviologist,
> >I have a nagging suspicion that I have seen such a word,
> >perhaps in Josepha Heifetz ... Can anyone help?
> ><<<<<
> >
> >Can we coin "triviast"?
> >
> >   Mark A. Mandel : Senior Linguist and Manager of Acoustic Data
> >         Mark_Mandel at dragonsys.com : Dragon Systems, Inc.
> > 320 Nevada St., Newton, MA 02460, USA : http://www.dragonsys.com/
> >                     (speaking for myself)
>
> -
> Greg

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Peter A. McGraw
Linfield College
McMinnville, Oregon
pmcgraw at linfield.edu