Guns & Butter: The Vocabulary of Economic Deception

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[–]SundogsPlace 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The man touches on something that's long been on my mind; through languages, and barriers there to, they can more easily manipulate. An example... Mortgage.. It's a word not used from what I know in Spanish, and most romantic languages. In Spanish, they call them Hipotecas. I'm not sure what the root meaning of that is, but hey, I do know that a "Mort" is Death, and "gage" is grip; so Latin base for Mortgage-DEATH GRIP.
Go figure they don't use that verbiage in Spanish!

[–]Tom_Bombadil[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I've got to pay... The DEATH GRIP!!!.

Edit: Great comment, by the way! :-)