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  2. Haole - Wikipedia

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    The origins of the word predate the 1778 arrival of Captain James Cook, as recorded in several chants stemming from that time. [4] [5] The term was generally given to people of European descent; however, as more distinct terms began to be applied to individual European cultures and other non-European nations, the word haole began to refer mostly to Americans, including American Blacks (who ...

  3. Cholo - Wikipedia

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    Cholo ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtʃolo]) is a loosely defined Spanish term that has had various meanings. Its origin is a somewhat derogatory term for people of mixed-blood heritage in the Spanish Empire in Latin America and its successor states as part of castas, the informal ranking of society by heritage.

  4. Google Neural Machine Translation - Wikipedia

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    GNMT improved on the quality of translation by applying an example-based (EBMT) machine translation method in which the system learns from millions of examples of language translation. [2] GNMT's proposed architecture of system learning was first tested on over a hundred languages supported by Google Translate. [ 2 ]

  5. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [11] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [11] The input text had to be translated into English first ...

  6. Guido (slang) - Wikipedia

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    Guido ( / ˈɡwiːdoʊ /, Italian: [ˈɡwiːdo]) is a North American subculture, slang term, and ethnic slur referring to working-class urban Italian-Americans. The guido stereotype is multi-faceted. At one point, the term was used more generally as a disparaging term for Italians and people of Italian descent. More recently, it has come to ...

  7. Gweilo - Wikipedia

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    Gwái ( 鬼) means "ghoul" or "devil" [citation needed], and lóu ( 佬) means "man" or "guy". The word 鬼 gwai conveys a meaning of malevolence and evil. The common mistranslation of 鬼 gwai as “ghost” is wrong. Unlike a “ghost”, a 鬼 gwai can never be good. But a ghost can be a good spirit, even divine, an expression of God as in ...

  8. Gopnik - Wikipedia

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    Gopnik. A gopnik ( Russian: гопник, romanized : gopnik, pronounced [ˈɡopnʲɪk]; Ukrainian: гопник, romanized : hopnyk; Belarusian: гопнік, romanized : hopnik) [ 1] is a member of a delinquent subculture in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and in other former Soviet republics —a young man (or a woman, a gopnitsa) of working-class ...

  9. Penitente Hermandad de Jesús Yacente - Wikipedia

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    A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at [[:es:Penitente Hermandad de Jesús Yacente]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|es|Penitente Hermandad de Jesús Yacente}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.