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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/1491",
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  "archive": "whorl",
  "thread": {
    "id": 1491,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v012.n167",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-12-03T14:10:12+00:00",
    "last": "2001-12-03T14:10:12+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0013-whorl.v012.n168.3@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "aturner3 at nyc.rr.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-12-03T14:10:12+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: Digest whorl.v012.n167",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Eule wrote:\nHindu----not so sure about the accuracy but fwiw:\nchoora - four (the Rajan's knife)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I can count to ten in Hindi--though I need a jog to get started. Choora is\nnot four."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "hari mau every may?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Mau is not May. Hari is a common male first name."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "jahlee jail?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Jahlee is a female demon or lamia. This is her sardonic joke, just as Krait\ntakes the name of a Hindu viper."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "chota - instantly, a snap, at once, a blot ?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Chota means small. A chota peg is a small whiskey."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "darjan - a dozen\nchandi - fierce angry passionate\ngaon - knowledge understanding knowing\nram  - a negative value a debit an obligation\npehla - an ornament worn by ladies"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Not sure of these, but Ram is a common male first name, after the god Rama,\nand it seems unlikely to me that the word would have negative connotations.\n\n-alga"
        }
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