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  "thread": {
    "id": 2539,
    "subject": "The Spanish word \"Ayuntamiento\"",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-01-10T15:29:54+00:00",
    "last": "2001-01-10T15:29:54+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0239@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Parmenter",
        "address": "dan at lec.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-01-10T15:29:54+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) The Spanish word \"Ayuntamiento\"",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: \"The Laughing Skull\" <thelaughingskull at hotmail.com>\n3) The word 'Ayuntamiento' in Spanish means \"copulation.\"  Seeing as how the\ncause lots of problems for Silk, could this mean that they're \"The Fuckers?\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Okay, I'm no expert on Spanish, but I do happen to be employed as a\nlexicographer in the machine translation industry and since one of the\nprojects that we've been developing is an English to Spanish\ntranslation system, I just happen to have a team of Spanish\ntranslators at my disposal (shades of Woody Allen and Marshall\nMcLuhan, no?).  I consulted them (and their dictionaries including\nwww.diccionarios.com, which you can have a look at yourself) about the\nword \"ayuntamiento\".  The \"copulation\" meaning is not common and two\nof our Spanish translators (from Peru FWIW) were unfamiliar with its\nuse in this sense.  Apparently it's formal, often seen as\n\"ayuntamiento carnal\" and so one might guess that perhaps it's like\nthe English term \"sexual congress\".  I think it's a bit of a stretch\nto assume that this is what Wolfe had in mind.\n\nPersonally, I'm still wondering if Wolfe's characters drink their mate\nwith a bombilla (the silver strainer straw used to consume mate in\nArgentina).\n\nLex Shellac"
        }
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