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  "thread": {
    "id": 1582,
    "subject": "Ascian language",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-04-27T14:55:55+00:00",
    "last": "1999-04-27T14:55:55+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0026-0037@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Parmenter",
        "address": "dan at lec.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-04-27T14:55:55+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Ascian language",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: Matthew Malthouse <matthew.malthouse at guardian.co.uk>\nOf the several types of beings - hierodules, Baldanders, the ape\nguardians of the Saltus treasure cave, Ascians: all seem to display some\nempathy, or at least emotion driven reaction. There does however seem to\nbe gradation. Ascians live in a constructed society and emotive\nreactions are, if not supressed then subsumed by the limitations of\ntheir constructed language. "
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          "text": "I think that the whole point of Loyal to the Group of Seventeen's\nstory is that the Ascians minds and imaginations are NOT subsumed by\nthe limitations of their constructed languages.  I've said this\nbefore.  Severian rejects the extreme Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.  I do\nnot believe that this is Severian getting it wrong.  In fact, I'd be\ninclined to think that this is one of those cases where Severian's\nconclusions may echo Wolfe's own thoughts.\n\nLex Shellac"
        }
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