[noodle]

Nyororin, by false etymology, do you mean this for example? In the book, it said one of the kanji for "I" was the following. 吾. As you know, this is made of ;

五 = 5
口 = mouth

and putting them together, gives you = 吾　

He said in the book to think of your head and imagine your mouth to be a hole. Your head has 5 holes; nostrels, ears and mouth. The way to come up with this kanji is to think of this. As far as I remember, it sounded like this is how the kanji was created in the first place. However, it'd be pretty radical to believe such a story.

By the way, I saw this more than a year ago. His method is surprisingly effective are "remembering" a kanji. The way I see it, is that it seems to be pretty good to remember how to remember vocab (I know this isn't the right word, but I can't think of the word right now).

I'm surprised that people really believe that these kanji were created the way described in the book. I see the description as a method to remember. I use a similar method to remember things in Math and Physics. I imagine, sometimes ridiculous things, and I remember whatever it is I need to remember!