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  2. Spanish profanity - Wikipedia

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    The less extreme meaning, which is used in most Spanish-speaking countries, translates more or less as "jackass". The term, however, has highly offensive connotations in Puerto Rico. An older usage was in reference to a man who is in denial about being cheated (for example, by his wife).

  3. Pocho - Wikipedia

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    An opinion piece published in 2016 by the Washington Post blamed nativist policies for "creating generations of non-Spanish speaking Latinos". [ 13 ] In 2023, Mexican social media users labeled the regional Mexican band, Yahritza y su Esencia , as pochos in response to an interview they gave wherein they stated their dislike of Mexican food.

  4. Upside-down question and exclamation marks - Wikipedia

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    Outside of the Spanish-speaking world, John Wilkins proposed using the upside-down exclamation mark "¡" as a symbol at the end of a sentence to denote irony in 1668. He was one of many, including Desiderius Erasmus , who felt there was a need for such a punctuation mark, but Wilkins' proposal, like the other attempts, failed to take hold.

  5. Passive optical network - Wikipedia

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    XGS-PON is a related technology that can deliver upstream and downstream (symmetrical) speeds of up to 10 Gbit/s (gigabits per second), first approved in 2016 as G.9807.1. [17] Asymmetrical 50G-PON was approved by the ITU in September 2021, [18] [19] and symmetrical 50G-PON was approved in September 2022. [20]

  6. Pon de Replay - Wikipedia

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    "Pon de Replay" is a pop, dancehall and R&B [11] [2] [3] song that infuses a reggae style. [ 12 ] [ 4 ] According to the digital music sheet published at musicnotes.com, the song is written in the key of F-sharp minor and is set in common time with a moderated dance groove , with a metronome of 100 beats per minute . [ 12 ]

  7. Slavic honorifics - Wikipedia

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    An interesting etymological conundrum, an origin of the large family of honorific based on gospodь, is reflected by number of theories surrounding it.Most recent and interesting one is proposed by linguist Adrian Poruciuc, who asserts an early borrowing from the Old Germanic compound gōd-spōd (good fortune), in opposition to proposed unconvincing explanation based on Proto-Slavic compound ...

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    Spades is all about bids, blinds and bags. Play Spades for free on Games.com alone or with a friend in this four player trick taking classic.

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

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    in mexico this can mean dude or guy relating to someone younger but in puerto rican slang, it is used in replacement of dinero/money chulería While in other countries this word means "insolence", [13] in Puerto Rico it has an entirely different meaning and is used to describe that something is good, fun, funny, great or beautiful. [14] corillo