On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:27:01 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Butch Davis wrote:
Harry,

Thanks. In my New College Spanish & English Dictionary it shows the
translation of trucha (f) to be trout. It shows no other meanings but is a
pretty cheap paperback dictionary used at the Defense Language Institute 20
years ago when I was a student there. Perhaps it has other coloquial
translations? I'll google the hummer and see what floats up.

Butch
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Butch Davis wrote:
Funny.

Just read "Consent to Kill" by Vince Flynn. Over the top but not bad for
light entertainment. Anyway the story involves a few pages with a latino
gang in the DC area with the name "Mara Salvatrucha 13" or MS13. I
believe the Spanish for trout is Trucha. I've been trying to understand
a translation of the name but am not having any luck. Perhaps there is a
relationship to the slang meaning?? Save a trout?? I don't think so.
:=)

Butch
"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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are a wonderful species of game fish found nowhere else but on the
east coat most notably in and around new jersey.

http://www.fisheyesoup.com/article_details/285.html


Trucha means vigilant or alert.



Here's a piece from Newsweek on MS-13.


Not newsweek, but:
http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/02-...ion.cgi.6.html

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John H

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