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October 7, 2004

salad tossers of Latin America, unite!

I get a Spanish word of the day in my email, and today's word was "cosa," or "thing." I found the example sentence rather humorous, however:
Spanish: Vale, estamos de acuerdo en una cosa... la ensalada.

English: OK, we agree on one thing-- tossed salad.
Sure, this would make perfect sense if two people were planning a dinner party, but I like to imagine just throwing it out in any argument:
"Only under communism will the working class truly be free!"

"OK, we agree on one thing-- tossed salad."
Unfortunately, "la ensalada" isn't inherently funny, whereas the phrase "tossed salad" somehow is.

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