Thaumaturgic sentence
(20 June 2026)
(Sir Laurence Olivier’s reading:
https://x.com/whereabout_F/status/2068388877165891640/video/1?s=46.)
The following expression has a usefulness that transcends all linguistic, geographical and communicative contexts: it will be good to learn it even if you never have any connection with Spain or its language, and even if it has no influence on the man who triggered your need to use it; because it has thaumaturgic properties that will comfort your spirit.
It is something you ought to say to a man whose negligence has harmed you or could harm you in a more or less direct and more or less personal way.
It is necessary that the person you are addressing with the phrase should be male and that you should give it the same intonation that Sir Laurence Olivier uses when he says the sentence (in impeccable Spanish) in the Eleven Reader app for iPhone.
You need to copy the entire text of this tweet and paste it into the app (even if you then select to hear only the ending phrase) so that Sir Laurence Olivier tell it like it is.
(The approximate translation would be something like, Dude, this isn’t how it works, okay?)
¡Machote esto no funciona así eh?