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/Sounds like "MEEN" (as in "me") + "gah" (as in "garden")/
No way, absolutely not, forget it. In Chile, "minga" is the most emphatic shutdown possible, a flat refusal with zero room for negotiation. When someone says minga, the conversation is over and no counter-offer is coming.
“Lend you my car? Not a chance.”
“No way am I working Saturday without extra pay.”
/Sounds like "MEEN" (as in "me") + "gah" (as in "garden")/
A communal voluntary work tradition from the Andes where an entire community comes together to help one of its members with a big task, like building a house or harvesting crops. Rooted in pre-Hispanic culture, the minga is still alive in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia as a living expression of collective solidarity.
“They organized a minga to build the neighborhood community hall in a single weekend.”
“The minga finished the whole harvest in one day, something that would have taken a week alone.”
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/Sounds like "MEEN" (as in "me") + "gah" (as in "garden")/
No way, absolutely not, forget it. In Chile, "minga" is the most emphatic shutdown possible, a flat refusal with zero room for negotiation. When someone says minga, the conversation is over and no counter-offer is coming.
“Lend you my car? Not a chance.”
“No way am I working Saturday without extra pay.”
/Sounds like "MEEN" (as in "me") + "gah" (as in "garden")/
A communal voluntary work tradition from the Andes where an entire community comes together to help one of its members with a big task, like building a house or harvesting crops. Rooted in pre-Hispanic culture, the minga is still alive in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia as a living expression of collective solidarity.
“They organized a minga to build the neighborhood community hall in a single weekend.”
“The minga finished the whole harvest in one day, something that would have taken a week alone.”
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Sorbete
A drinking straw in Guatemala and El Salvador. The funny thing is that in other countries 'sorbete' means fruit sorbet, so ordering a sorbete can cause epic confusion.