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  2. Spanish language - Wikipedia

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    Spanish ( español) or Castilian ( castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language ...

  3. Naming customs of Hispanic America - Wikipedia

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    The naming customs of Hispanic America are similar to the Spanish naming customs practiced in Spain, with some modifications to the surname rules. Many Hispanophones in the countries of Spanish -speaking America have two given names, plus like in Spain, a paternal surname ( primer apellido or apellido paterno) and a maternal surname ( segundo ...

  4. List of Puerto Rican slang words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    dura. Normally means “hard”, but in Puerto Rican slang means that someone is really good at what they do. [ 3] embustería. series of lies, something that is completely false, a "pack of lies" [ 15] ¡Fo! literally translates to "eww!" or "yuck!" it is often used as an exclamation in reaction to a bad smell.

  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. Spanish profanity - Wikipedia

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    Concha (lit.: " mollusk shell" or "inner ear") is an offensive word for a woman's vulva or vagina (i.e. something akin to English cunt) in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Mexico. In the rest of Latin America and Spain however, the word is only used with its literal meaning.

  7. List of Latin phrases (P) - Wikipedia

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    List of Latin phrases (P) This page lists English translations of notable Latin phrases, such as veni vidi vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as Greek rhetoric and literature reached its peak centuries before the rise of ancient Rome . This list covers the letter P.

  8. Jesse (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Jesse (given name) Jesse is a given name of Hebrew origin. It derives its popularity from the biblical figure Jesse, father of Israelite monarch David. The English version is derived from the Latin Iesse, borrowed from the Ancient Greek Iessaí (Ἰεσσαί), and ultimately from the Hebrew Yišay (יִשַׁי).

  9. Translation - Wikipedia

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    Machine translation (MT) is a process whereby a computer program analyzes a source text and, in principle, produces a target text without human intervention. In reality, however, machine translation typically does involve human intervention, in the form of pre-editing and post-editing. [97]