The Last Post Game!!!!

[Swatopluk]

No more hints before some serious guesses are made.

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[Griffin NoName]

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[Pachyderm]

Is it mountebank?

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[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

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[Aggie]

No more hints before some serious guesses are made.

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I don't like guessing wildly, so I generally wait until I think I've got a shot at it.  Nothing yet.


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[Swatopluk]

Greek is the right direction (i.e. the word is derived from Greek). Walls are involved and Homer knew the LPWB (although he would likely not have described it with a single word).
It may be also useful to abuse an English-German dictionary to find the word through the puns.
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[Pachyderm]

Is it in English? Or German? Or Greek, and used in either of those?

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[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

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Or was that Plato?

[Aggie]

It may be also useful to abuse an English-German dictionary to find the word through the puns.

No thanks, I usually get bawled out for attempting bilingual puns.


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[pieces o nine]

No thanks, I usually get bawled out for attempting bilingual puns.

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I have friends in the foreign language teaching biz, all of whom twitch at misuse of 'false friends,' 'direct translations' of idioms, that sort of thing. I used to enjoy tormenting one with such lovingly crafted phrases as "¿Dónde están mis vasos de ojos?"  and then laughing hilariously. She always reminded me that she usually charges people to abuse her second language so egregiously.

One day we met a colleague of hers, a German teacher. Satan inflamed me with an inspiration to attempt a pun on Kennedy's famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" by substituting the name of the first alternate German pastry that came to my mind. As is my wont, I laughed modestly at my own joke. (In the words of Miss Piggy, "Other people may try to appreciate you, but they so often fall short.")

The German teacher did not laugh appreciatively with me. He blanched, excused himself, and sidled away. My polyglot friend gave me her long-suffering foreign language teacher look. Apparently, what I actually said -- in very, very  poor German -- was *not* a clever pastry joke, but something to the effect that I wanted to eat his legs...

I was thoroughly delighted by this and only wish I had paid better attention to what I was constructing, as she refused to remind me. One never knows when it might come in handy, delivered with absolute deadpan, under the right circumstances. Such as meeting the Holy Father, on his next US visit -- after I've been re-catholicized by my mother -- perhaps...

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My previous attempt at German comedy was more successful, although still grammatically suspect. Same friend and I were at Barnes & Noble in the foreign language dictionaries, entertaining ourselves yet again with the "Learn to Speak X in just 1 minute a day!" type books. I was inspired to create a trendy, high fashion magazine with a German title. It was one long, sonorous, polysyllabic word and I was very proud of it. It literally meant something like "The Premier Magazine for the Women Who Wish to Set the Men on Fire."

Close enough. 

[Swatopluk]

Word totally Greek, noun with 4 syllables. First syllable is also a German word, so a layperson could misunderstand it as "looking at (or into) small lakes"

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[Griffin NoName]

I am so glad I don't have to guess.

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[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

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[Pachyderm]

Varangian


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[Swatopluk]

Shakespeare knew it very well too. Otherwise he couldn't have afforded to stage his plays.

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