Comments on: GTW Game XII

By: leoNard

leoNard — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:35:02 +0000

Hi Anna, with spring and sales-[FLEA Market] is a great request!...

:shock: Like so haggling is a type of negotiation :twisted:

----Tianguis (Tianquiztli) is a Mexican word derived from the Mexican indigenous language Nahuatl, or Aztec language, and is still frequently used today in Mexico to describe an open public market, i.e., a street market. Traditionally, the word has been used to describe markets where most of the vendors are indigenous Mexican farmers and craftsmen, however the use of the word has expanded to often include flea markets and other venues frequented by itinerant vendors. The word is most often used in areas that were traditional strongholds of the Aztec empire. From the time of the Aztecs, so-called "tianguis" are organized as open-air markets. __________an open meat market has flies :oops: ___________pease out :!:

By: Loudfighter

Loudfighter — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:02:25 +0000

Who is hfwgiapanta?
I cant find him on this site? :???:
actualy, what he said? :eek:

By: interpretty

interpretty — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:37:15 +0000

Hi Marina,
I have a request for you. I know you prefer video requests but I am technically challenged.
Is it true that FLEA MARKET was first a market in France where they first sold only flea-infested old beds and matresses?
How disgusting! What do you think?
Warmest regards from Moscow,
Anna

By: Evan Owen

Evan Owen — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:24:01 +0000

I’ll second that. Anything to do with Spanish “miel” (honey) or Russian “Ð¼Ð¸Ð»Ð°Ñ”? :?:

By: Evan Owen

Evan Owen — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:12:07 +0000

I’ll have to think on it. :???:

By: John

John — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:08:47 +0000

A=quarto
B=quar=quarry
C=quarry=limestone
D=Shakespeare=Romeo & Juliet(This ties back to A.)

:smile: :smile:

By: Chemikal

Chemikal — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:17:16 +0000

Seeing the first picture in the video again, got me thinking about the hanging seen.
I believe I found an answer for it. (the only thing that wasn’t so easy)
But let me try to tell the whole story.
The Curfew Law, its intention was to prevent the rise of conflagrations. But it has also been regarded as a repressive measure, adopted by the tyrant Norman Conqueror, to prevent seditious meetings of the turbulent Saxons. Poets and writers of the time, also Voltaire, in his “Universal History”, ridicules the notion of the curfew being a badge of degradation.
It’s clear, the Curfew Law could be employed not only to protect the people’s wooden houses from the dreaded fires, but also as a method of control! (this form of manipulating the laws to the leader’s advantage is still present in modern Democracies)
Norman Conqueror has set upon himself to govern the people that he has overcome, so he used the Curfew Law as a form of national observance. He feared that the people would stream through the city to create riots, so he erected gibbets to frighten the masses. A gibbet was a device used for public executions of criminals and the deterrence of future crime. Thus the morbid picture of hanging women that Marina insisted of having on her video.

I could be wrong, since I’m not a genuine philologist, but in both cases, I know I had a lot of fun researching and writing the story.

By: Chemikal

Chemikal — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:49:02 +0000

Thanks a lot Spinachman, for your support.
Next round of spinach is on me! :)

By: Chemikal

Chemikal — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:17:34 +0000

Thank you PD, I’m just waiting for the answer to this week’s game, like everybody else. Now, if I win, that would be an added bonus, a very welcomed one! :D

By: Chemikal

Chemikal — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:13:58 +0000

Thank you, Bob… I’m keeping my fingers crossed. :)