Comments on: GTW Game XII http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/01/15/guess-the-word-game-xii/ Marina Orlova - Not your typical philologist. Etymology, philology, word origins, origin of, hot teacher. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:12:57 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Loudfighter http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/01/15/guess-the-word-game-xii/comment-page-1/#comment-104817 Loudfighter Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:02:25 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=2441#comment-104817 Who is hfwgiapanta? I cant find him on this site? :???: actualy, what he said? :eek: Who is hfwgiapanta?
I cant find him on this site? :???:
actualy, what he said? :eek:

]]> By: interpretty http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/01/15/guess-the-word-game-xii/comment-page-1/#comment-104394 interpretty Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:37:15 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=2441#comment-104394 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 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 http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/01/15/guess-the-word-game-xii/comment-page-1/#comment-104388 Evan Owen Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:24:01 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=2441#comment-104388 I'll second that. Anything to do with Spanish "miel" (honey) or Russian "милая"? :?: I’ll second that. Anything to do with Spanish “miel” (honey) or Russian “милая”? :?:

]]> By: Evan Owen http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/01/15/guess-the-word-game-xii/comment-page-1/#comment-104272 Evan Owen Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:12:07 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=2441#comment-104272 I'll have to think on it. :???: I’ll have to think on it. :???:

]]> By: John http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/01/15/guess-the-word-game-xii/comment-page-1/#comment-104253 John Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:08:47 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=2441#comment-104253 A=quarto B=quar=quarry C=quarry=limestone D=Shakespeare=Romeo & Juliet(This ties back to A.) :smile: :smile: A=quarto
B=quar=quarry
C=quarry=limestone
D=Shakespeare=Romeo & Juliet(This ties back to A.)

:smile: :smile:

]]> By: Chemikal http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/01/15/guess-the-word-game-xii/comment-page-1/#comment-104200 Chemikal Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:17:16 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=2441#comment-104200 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. <b>The Curfew Law</b>, 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 <i>badge of degradation</i>. 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. 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 http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/01/15/guess-the-word-game-xii/comment-page-1/#comment-104178 Chemikal Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:49:02 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=2441#comment-104178 Thanks a lot Spinachman, for your support. Next round of spinach is on me! :) Thanks a lot Spinachman, for your support.
Next round of spinach is on me! :)

]]> By: Chemikal http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/01/15/guess-the-word-game-xii/comment-page-1/#comment-104166 Chemikal Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:17:34 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=2441#comment-104166 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 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 http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/01/15/guess-the-word-game-xii/comment-page-1/#comment-104164 Chemikal Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:13:58 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=2441#comment-104164 Thank you, Bob... I'm keeping my fingers crossed. :) Thank you, Bob… I’m keeping my fingers crossed. :)

]]> By: the fooligan http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/01/15/guess-the-word-game-xii/comment-page-1/#comment-104126 the fooligan Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:23:09 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=2441#comment-104126 Nope doesn't fit. Nope doesn’t fit.

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