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/Sounds like "LEHN" (as in "let") + "tehs" (as in "ten")/
Glasses or spectacles for correcting vision or blocking the sun. The standard word for eyeglasses across much of Latin America, from Mexico to Chile and Venezuela.
“My glasses broke and I can't see anything.”
“I need new sunglasses for this summer.”
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/Sounds like "LEHN" (as in "let") + "tehs" (as in "ten")/
Glasses or spectacles for correcting vision or blocking the sun. The standard word for eyeglasses across much of Latin America, from Mexico to Chile and Venezuela.
“My glasses broke and I can't see anything.”
“I need new sunglasses for this summer.”
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To string someone along with empty promises, half-truths, or vague reassurances that keep them pacified without ever resolving the actual problem. A classic Mexican bureaucratic tactic: you leave every conversation feeling like something was said, but nothing was actually done.