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  2. Miami accent - Wikipedia

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    Speakers of the Miami accent occasionally use "calques," which are idioms directly translated from Spanish that may sound syntactically unusual to other native English speakers. For example, instead of saying, "let's get out of the car," someone from Miami might say, "let's get down from the car," which is the standard expression in Spanish ...

  3. Hyperforeignism - Wikipedia

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    The South American beverage, mate, is frequently spelled maté in English, adding an acute accent (as in 'café') to indicate that the word has two syllables and is not pronounced like the English word mate (/ ˈ m eɪ t /). In Spanish, such an accent would shift the stress and change the meaning of the word (maté meaning "I killed" in Spanish).

  4. Dubbing - Wikipedia

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    The dialogue writer's role is to make the translation sound natural in the target language, and to make the translation sound like a credible dialogue instead of merely a translated text. [ 12 ] Another task of dialogue writers is to check whether a translation matches an on-screen character's mouth movements or not, by reading aloud ...

  5. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    Spanish: ñam: ñam ñam: glu glu glu, glup: glup: Swedish: nam-nam: nam nam: glugg glugg, klunk klunk: gulp: Tamil: கருக்கு முறுக்கு (karukk murukk) (mainly used to indicate crunching) Thai: งั่บ (ngap), ง่ำ (ngam) ง่ำ ง่ำ (ngam ngam) อึ้ก (uek), เอื้อก (ueak ...

  6. List of Spanish words of Indigenous American Indian origin

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    This is a list of Spanish words that come from indigenous languages of the Americas.It is further divided into words that come from Arawakan, Aymara, Carib, Mayan, Nahuatl, Quechua, Taíno, Tarahumara, Tupi and uncertain (the word is known to be from the Americas, but the exact source language is unclear).

  7. List of Spanish words of Indo-Aryan origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Spanish words that come from Indo-Aryan languages.It is further divided into words that come from Persian, Romani and Sanskrit.Some of these words have alternate etymologies and may also appear on a list of Spanish words from a different language.

  8. Rapper, wrestler … King of Spain? As guest host of Saturday Night Live this week, Bad Bunny has the chance to expand his acting repertoire. Despite having more than a hundred acting credits on ...

  9. Non-lexical vocables in music - Wikipedia

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    Spanish yeyé signer Massiel won the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest with La, la, la. Due to the wide-ranging vocal styles used in popular music, occasionally songs have been mistakenly categorized as having non-lexical vocables, when in fact the singers are performing actual lyrics rendered partially (or completely) unintelligible to the ear of ...