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mystacoceti · 8 days

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just using a second languag has a pleasant mundanity sometimes. I was fixing a machine this evening and the guy who was there with me only speaks Spanish. Nothing big, and yet it's fun to have "todavía tienes la pata de chivo?" come rolling off the tip of your tongue

#''La barra?''#''No dices pata de chivo?''#''Pues algas personas dicen pata de chivo. Algas barra''#so look up a positive discharge bucket elevator (it'll look like a _/¯ shape with plastic buckets)#now imagine- if you will join me on this mental voyage to a land of almost unspeakable torment and sisyphean struggle-#the elevator breaking and jamming thirty of those plastic buckets tightly packed into the low _ part of the elevator #and also the chain broke

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