I remember, when I was a teenage kid learning to drive, that my cousin got a second-hand car called a Nova. It wasn’t a very good car. Apparently it didn’t sell well in Mexico, and the joke went round in Spanish that its name was perfect: “No va,” meaning, “It doesn’t go!” I read about that in an article complaining that Americans didn’t learn second…
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