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  "thread": {
    "id": 1245,
    "subject": "Frog Name",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-11-05T03:27:41+00:00",
    "last": "1998-11-05T03:27:41+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0021-0042@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Rich Horton",
        "address": "rrhorton at concentric.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-11-05T03:27:41+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Frog Name",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Mon, 2 Nov 1998 16:47:49 -0800 (PST), Damien Broderick wrote:\nSome guy with a Frog name who's a computational linguist and whose fairly\nrecent book has GLASS in the title."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I assume you mean Jean Mark Gawron, and the book is, I think, _Dreams\nof Glass_.  (I haven't read it, but I have read his first novel, _An\nApology for Rain_, which was OK, and his second, _Algorithm_, which\nwas godawful and practically unfinishable.)\n\nAnother linguistics-derived book is _The Embedding_ by Ian Watson,\nwhich involved raising kids speaking an invented language in the\nAmazon.  Seems to have been somewhat Whorfian in outlook.\n\n-- Rich Horton (Tusk)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Rich Horton | rrhorton at concentric.net\nWeb Page: www.sff.net/people/richard.horton  (New reviews of \n_Halfway Human_ and _The Star Fraction_ and _Deepdrive_.)"
        }
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