***OFFICIAL*** LOST Season 3 Episode 17 Discussion -spoiler free-

[xadrez]

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I haven't looked into this much, but I imagine some African countries are former Portuguese colonies, so this might tie into the men at the listening station and the Portuguese version of Catch-22 as well.

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Portugal had several African colonies: Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau on the mainland, and the Sao Tome e Principe and Cape Verde ISLANDS [img]/images/graemlins/ooo.gif[/img]

Also, Argil-22 is the Brazilian Portuguese translation of Catch-22, I believe in Portugal the book was called Codigo-22. Also, the guys in the arctic hut had Brazilian
accents.

(6 years after graduation from college, my degree in Portuguese is finally paying some dividends!)

[Kneel B4 Zod]

Ardil also means "smart like a fox" or "astute", but I'm not sure that has much meaning in this case.