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minus-squareBakzik [he/him, comrade/them]hexbear5·4 months agoNot gonna lie, sometimes I wonder how many "servilletas" are at my Uni (full of leftists and socdems). link
minus-squareAernaLingus [any]hexbear3·3 months agoI'm not familiar with that slang (only know servilleta to mean a literal napkin) and Google wasn't helpful--could you explain it? link
minus-squareBakzik [he/him, comrade/them]hexbear2·edit-23 months agoOf course. In spanish: -Servicios de inteligencia = Intelligence Services = Intelligence Agency -SERVIcios = Services -SERVIlletas. And that's why we call them "napkins". Is just the similarity of "Servicios" with "Servilleta". No deeper meaning. Sorry for the late response. link
minus-squareAernaLingus [any]hexbear2·3 months agoThanks for the explanation! I guess it'd be like if we called feds "fedoras" in English (although I think "napkins" is funnier since they're such trivial objects). And no worries--wasn't time sensitive or anything! link
Not gonna lie, sometimes I wonder how many "servilletas" are at my Uni (full of leftists and socdems).
I'm not familiar with that slang (only know servilleta to mean a literal napkin) and Google wasn't helpful--could you explain it?
Of course.
In spanish:
-Servicios de inteligencia = Intelligence Services = Intelligence Agency
-SERVIcios = Services
-SERVIlletas.
And that's why we call them "napkins". Is just the similarity of "Servicios" with "Servilleta". No deeper meaning.
Sorry for the late response.
Thanks for the explanation! I guess it'd be like if we called feds "fedoras" in English (although I think "napkins" is funnier since they're such trivial objects).
And no worries--wasn't time sensitive or anything!