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  "thread": {
    "id": 2135,
    "subject": "Discussions of \"Ascian\"",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2000-02-23T13:20:09+00:00",
    "last": "2000-02-23T14:35:47+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0813@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ourboros",
        "address": "ottofaij at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-02-23T14:35:47+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Discussions of \"Ascian\"",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "text": "The last two editions on the World Wide Words mailing list\n(http://www.quinion.com/words/) have included discussions of  the word\n\"Ascian\". (http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-asc1.htm.)\n\nNo reference to Gene Wolfe's works, but I chastised them for that.\n\n-Ouroboros"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0814@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Carlos Martinho",
        "address": "carlosom71 at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-02-23T13:20:09+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Discussions of \"Ascian\"",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0813@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "I went there and the discussion prompted me to look\nfor a similar word in a Portuguese dictionary (since\nPortuguese is a Latin-derived language, it seemed a\ngood try). \n\nSo, here it is: in Portuguese there's the word\n\"áscio\",  meaning \"He who lives in the torrid zone,\nwhere, at noon, the there's no shadows produced by the\nSun\". The given root is the Latin word \"ascios\"."
        }
      ]
    }
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