• AernaLingus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’m not familiar with that slang (only know servilleta to mean a literal napkin) and Google wasn’t helpful–could you explain it?

    • Bakzik [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • AernaLingus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        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!