where does the word llamado and dejado came from?i mean the history of the 2 words. .?
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spanish and philippines.llamado means,u have the upper hand in a fight,dejado means your ass is getting kicked.They use that words during cockfights.asians are known for cockfighting.this is how they gamble.
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hey, if you're wondering about a person understanding you...don't worry, they'll understand you either way. There's really no RIGHT way to say the "ll". I've lived in so many countries (and am fluent in both lanuguages, I've spoken both my whole life) and they all say it differently. In Spain, it's more of a "che" (me-chamo), in Costa Rica, it's a pure "y" (me yamo), in the Dominican Republic and most latin american countries, it's a "j" (me, jamo), and in Venezuela, it's a "sh" (me shamo)... does that help? No matter how you say, most fluent Spanish-speakers will understand you...but, to be safe, I'd choose the "J" sound. It's the most commonly used. Also, it's not only the "ll" that's said differently, it's also the y. Usually, the way they said their "ll" is the same way that they'll say their "y"s.
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Its a slang in Spanish for vagina.
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This is actually a pretty touchy topic.\nMexican is what everyone else has mentioned...for Mexican nationals.  This does not include Mexican-American folks because they are actually American as in U.S.A.\nHispanic was the term used by the "white" man as in inclusive word for all central and south Americans...including Brazil.  Hispanic for "hispano" which was a word in the spanish language.  Hispano meaning from Spanish as in Spain descent.\nLatino was the word to sort of rebel from the Hispanic word because it was more pertaining to the central and south Americans.  Latino because those parts of the world many considered to be Latin America and their spanish is considerably different from the castilian spanish from Spain.\nIn order to answer your question, to whom are you referring?  If you know where the people or person is from, use their nationality term (peruvian, venezuelan, etc).  If you don't, use Hispanic or latino, they are used interchangably and most folks are used to both terms.  But I think most would prefer Latino.
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I'm not sure if you caught it right: escritos means writings, esparsos means selected, but demolay? could it be in two words: de molay. In that case it could: of (de) and the writers name
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Language is an interesting thing.\n\nIt is quite possible to have two very, very similar sounding words with very different meanings.  Consider "heaven"  - would you get especially positive connotations from someone named "Evan" just because they sound the same?\n\nNo, we are not taught that the WORD "Hell" has negative connotations.  It is the CONCEPT, not the sounds.  Sounds are not magic, and where words do have magic it is from the meaning behind them, not the sounds.\n\nAnd if you are going to get hung up on sounds, hello comes not from "hell" but from "hallo", which sounds like Halo, which is a good thing, right?\n\nOf course from where I come from "hell" sounds more like "halo" than "hello"! But then, we're more likely to say "Howdy!" anyway.\n\nBTW, your URL looks like "heave no" to me.  I'd be inclined to think it was a natural anti-emetic, not a religious site.
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Lots of meanings, be aware!\nBola = Ball in Spanish (with same acceptions you can think of in English). But also can be "a lie", in Mexico "a big group of things" (e.g. "una bola de amigos", a big group of friends), and others\nBolo = Bowling Ball in Spanish (only in Spain, Boliche in most of Latin America countries). In Mexico used for the money the grandfather offers to the baby in the baptism ...and also "cake" but in Portuguese
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“you did it very good, peace of sh***”  pajuo doesn’t exist in Spanish exist: pajaro – bird, and pedazo – piece. I suppose this comment is sarcastic and an insult of course
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Seems like you are using the term "latin" in the old and original context, that is, someone with roman heritage or to be more particular, someone from Lacio. If the average mexican used the term with that meaning, it's very likely he'd be wrong.\n\nAnyway, the meaning of the term "latino" (latin), as used today in Latin-america, means someone who's born in a country with a language derived from latin. You can check that meaning in the dictionary of the Real Academy of the Spanish Language, it has other meanings as well and it all depends the context and region where it’s used.\n\nSo, when someone "happily" claim to be "latin" (a mexican in this case), means his/her roots are in a country where the native language is a romance language and I can tell you that's the usual way the term is used among mexicans. I live among "latins" and they claim to be that, they don't claim to be full (or half) blooded italians, they'd usually recognize themselves as mestizos from a racial point of view.\n\nSo, when someone is looking for a "latin" look, it'd be good to know what he means by a "latin" look, since different meanings are accepted in the spanish language. Antonio Banderas, as far as I remember, has usually played characters that imply a spanish heritage.\n\nMy feelings is that sometimes the meanings of the term “latin” are ignored, and when the meaning taken is that used centuries ago, the results can be very misleading. The problem I find is the different meanings of the word are sometimes ignored. I wouldn't be surprised that a mexican denied that italians are "latins" just by ignorance of the other meanings of the word. I think what's important is to know exactly how the term is used by the speaker and in what context it's used rather than taking the word as it had only one meaning.\n\nThose are my feelings as a mexican that happens to have some italian heritage (apart from spanish and arabic) and is aware about how his mexican pals use the word "latin".
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Good point...because there is nothing in comon between the original word and what it is nowadays...it makes you wonder. Sory i didnt exactly answer the question :D
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Tocayo in spanish. Dont know in portuguese.
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Aliohope got it right.  Coño is not a made-up word, and Spaniards frequently use it instead of damn, sh–t, etc.  To John, who said it was made-up by Mexicans who speak very bad Spanish…um, no.  Not even close.
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It's an informal/slang Spanish/Latino word for "handsome man".  It's not from a song, just from the culture and the language.\n\nCheers, K
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Spanish is, as there was written here before a romance language, that means it comes from the culture of Ancient Rome (Romance), and it evolves from the roman language, that is Latin.\n\nLatin was also influenced by previous greek, and so, many of the roots of the words are greek.\n\nIn the times of the empire, europe was fully conquered by Rome, and Latin was the "lingua franca" that means the world recognized and useful language of transaction an culture, today that is english, and in the 19 century was french.\n\nWhen the Roman empire collapsed, three "barbaric" people known as the "Godos" which were the Vicigodos, Ostrogodos and Francos respectively occupyied Spain, Italy and France, then influenced the Latin Dialects that were spoken there.\n\nThere there were formed early versions of the romance languages, such as "d`oc" and "d`oil" in france, the italian early dialects in italy and three langages in spain.\n\nThere is actually no spanish language, but three... those are Castilian (From Castilla), Catalá (From Cataluña) and Galician (From Galicia). The one that we commonly know as spanish is Castilian, that was the kingdom that subdued the others along spain.\n\nSpain itself was somehow aluvional, and was greatly influenced by arabic people in the south, celtic people in the north and jews around all spain until the inquisition (Circa 1500). Those people also influenced the castilian language, you can see old spanish with all those previous influences in the poem of the "Cid Campeador".\n\nAfter the conquest of the americas, spanish took different directions, dialects and accents that you can, if you pay attention, differentiate.\n\nI.E. : I dont speak the same spanish a spaniard does, or mexican, or veneluelan or chilean... i am from uruguay, and althou it is similar to argentinian spanish we can recognize and identify differences.\n\nIn spain it also evolved by its own way.\n\nSo, basically spanish has a Latin language Base, with vicigod`s language, and influences of Arabic, Hebrew and Greek.
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"Look, in Barranquilla, (which I'm guessing is a location), we dance like this". That's what it means. I'm guessing this is Mexican or northern central American Spanish, definitely not Spain or below Central America. Am I right? Do know your source?\n   Guess I was wrong.
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Everyone is wrong except the guy who said it was from Anglo-Saxon.  "F..k" has a long pedigree in the Germanic languages.  It was found in Proto-Germanic about 2500 years ago as the verb *fukan 'have intercourse'.  This was not vulgar at that time and was a euphemism for some older word.  Ultimately, it comes from Proto-Indo-European *pug- "to strike", from which we get the borrowed Latin form pugilism 'boxing'.
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When people use these common expressions, it's hard to tell if they really mean it. \nI'd say it sounds more like "Nos vemos" than "Quiero verte".\nUnless it's accompanied by an actual proposal (time and place).