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Among the poems in the collection are Yo soy un hombre sincero (I), Si ves un monte de espumas (V) and Cultivo una rosa blanca (XXXIX). Verses pruned from various poems were adapted into the folk song " Guantanamera ", which is the most popular patriotic song of Cuba and was popularized in the US in the 1960s during the American folk music ...
"Guantanamera" (pronounced [ɡwantanaˈmeɾa]; Spanish for 'The woman from Guantánamo') [1] is a Cuban patriotic song, which uses a poem by the Cuban poet José Martí for the lyrics. The official writing credits have been given to Joseíto Fernández, who first popularized the song on radio as early as 1929 (although it is unclear when the first release as a record o
His most famous poem, Yo soy un hombre sincero has entered into popular culture as it has been reproduced hundreds of times into the song "Guantanamera", most recently by Celia Cruz and even the Fugees. Later in the 19th century, the poetry of Latin America continued to shift away from European styles.
The form habemos is common (meaning "there are, including me"); it very rarely replaces hemos to form the present perfect tense in modern language, [10] and in certain contexts it is even acceptable in formal or literary language: Había un hombre en la casa. = "There was a man in the house."
Le Jeu de L'Hombre (1695).. Ombre takes its name from the Spanish phrase originally used by the player who declared trumps: Yo soy el hombre, i.e.,"I am the man". It appears to be merely an alteration of the game Primero and it is to be presumed that it was invented prior to the publication of the Dictionary of Sebastián de Covarrubias in 1611, although it makes no mention of it. [14]
Güey (Spanish pronunciation:; also spelled guey, wey or we) is a word in colloquial Mexican Spanish that is commonly used to refer to any person without using their name. . Though typically (and originally) applied only to males, it can also be used for females (although when using slang, women would more commonly refer to another woman as "chava" [young woman] or "vieja" [old lady])
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DICTIONARY of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE: in which The WORDS are deduced from their ORIGINALS, and ILLUSTRATED in their DIFFERENT SIGNIFICATIONS by EXAMPLES from the best WRITERS. To which are prefixed, A HISTORY of the LANGUAGE, and AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR. By SAMUEL JOHNSON, A.M. In TWO Volumes VOL. I