There’s a tractor pulling a seedrill overtaking a conveyor belt driven by a 15-year-old

I don’t think the Roman alphabet has the guttural sounds available for it. Maybe it was lost along the way in the evolution from the Indo European steppe.

There’s a tractor pulling a seedrill overtaking a conveyor belt driven by a 15-year-old

A load of sunny Latins smoothened it out to make it go with wine. Perhaps Xhosa has a few clicks for it. The closest approximation I can make is Khtokh-Plokh! It’s the sound of a toddler getting sick on herself in a car seat.

We were on a trip from Dublin to Achill. As anyone who’s travelled from Dublin to the west-northwest and northwest will know, there’s a moment where the motorway ends and you are back on the Ns.

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