TAG QUESTIONS (What's in a Name?)

Finding a name for this blog was extremely Gargantuan (meaning laborious, not the giant zombie Gargantuar I despised in PvsZ that hurls down Imps into my defenses, which I have to kill with a cherry bomb and jalapeno and sometimes with another squash if it is the red-eyed one and so, during Survival Endless mode, I place several cob cannons to strike it twice or even thrice, and blah, blah, blah… [sorry for the long afterthought, I was carried away…]).

As I was saying, while looking for a blog title, I have come across several phrases and titles which I thought might put my musings, reflections and ponderings in a nutshell. Opportunely, I’ve met new Minas en route - Minas Tirith, Meena Carmine, Carminative (kind of embarrassing when I found out what it meant) are just a few which topped my list.

For the very few sporadic readers of meenataur, here is a very educational background of the titles I almost considered for my blog. This information will be truly helpful in many of your day-to-day activities and endeavors, struggles, occupations, researches, dreams, social awareness programs, volunteer works and many other vital undertakings that may help shape the country and the world. Having doubts? Go ahead and find out the enormous significance of this knowledge to mankind.

MINAS TIRITH

Minas Tirith originally named Minas Anor, is a fictional city and castle in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings. It became the heavily fortified capital of Gondor in the second half of the Third Age. It is often referred to as the White City and the City of Kings.

Tolkien described Minas Tirith as built on a hill, called the Hill of Guard, right against the face of Mount Mindolluin. The city looked eastward over the Pelennor Fields, which were used for farmland, toward Osgiliath, the former capital of Gondor that Minas Tirith replaced.

The name Minas Tirith means "The Tower of Guard" or "The Tower of Watch" in the Elvish language Sindarin. It was originally named Minas Anor, "The Tower of the Sun", in connection with Minas Ithil,  "The Tower of the Moon". Minas Ithil was later conquered by orcs from Mordor and was renamed Minas Morgul, "The Tower of Black Sorcery".

MEENA CARMINE

Meena Carmine is a fictional character from Mobile Suit Gundam 00. Featured in Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie: A wakening of the Trailblazer, Meena is an astrophysicist working for the Earth Sphere Federation during the ELS Conflict. Meena overall is an intelligent and sexually aggressive woman. She doesn't hide her attraction to Billy Katagiri at all and intentionally uses her beauty and womanly charms to gain his attention. It's because of her forwardness that created a lot of unprofessional sexual tension during their work. While there are similarities to her genetic psuedo clone, Nena Trinity, she hasn't shown any signs of sharing Nena's murderous traits.

CARMINATIVE

A carminative, also known as carminativum (plural carminativa), is an herb or preparation that either prevents formation of gas in the gastrointestinal tract or facilitates the expulsion of said gas, thereby combating flatulence. Carminatives have been shown to decrease lower esophageal pressure, which on the other hand increases the risk of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) or 'heartburn.'

You are now enlightened, aren’t you? Fascinating, isn’t it? I was joking, wasn’t I? My mother named me after a flatulence-inducing mixture, didn’t she? The contracted questions at the end of the sentence are what we called Tag Questions. A tag question is a short question added to the end of a positive or negative statement. Now, get ¼ sheet of paper and let’s have a quiz…

(Sources: Wikipedia, intajia.sy, gundam.wikia)