Does Guajira mean anything in spanish? goog trans thinks not

Costs are rising and times are tough.
Please consider a donation to keep this
place going.

Welcome to one of the most active flamenco sites on the Internet. Guests can read most posts but if you want to participate click here to register.

This site is dedicated to the memory of Paco de Lucía, Ron Mitchell, Guy Williams, Linda Elvira, Philip John Lee, Craig Eros, Ben Woods, David Serva and Tom Blackshear who went ahead of us.

We receive 12,200 visitors a month from 200 countries and 1.7 million page impressions a year. To advertise on this site please contact us.

You are logged in as Guest

Users viewing this topic: none

Printable Version

All Forums >>Discussions >>Off Topic >>

Page: [1]

Message

<< Newer Topic Older Topic >>

El Burro Flamencuro

Posts: 118
Joined: Nov. 28 2012

Does Guajira mean anything in spanis...

So i was watching an Anthony bourdain documentary on netflix and in one of the documentaries he goes to colombia i believe...for some reason i remember hearing venezuela but this place looks like it's in colombia. Anyways....There is a place called La Guajira....in colombia.

Hearing about Colombianas....and now finding a place in colombia called la guajira and hearing how the two are fairly similar....and also being told by others that guajira comes from cuba....now i am thoroughly confused. Can anyone learn me this predicament or is this one of those topics that nobody really knows the true origins.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 4 2014 22:43:03

Leñador

Posts: 5237
Joined: Jun. 8 2012
From: Los Angeles

RE: Does Guajira mean anything in sp... (in reply to El Burro Flamencuro)

Mal pais hombre.

A "Guajiro" is Cuban slang for a country person and a Guajira is a country style song they would sing. Guajiras aside from flamenco is a cuban folk style, I think the flamencos took it from them.

_____________________________

\m/

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 4 2014 22:46:59

El Burro Flamencuro

Posts: 118
Joined: Nov. 28 2012

RE: Does Guajira mean anything in sp... (in reply to Leñador)

quote:

A "Guajiro" is Cuban slang for a country person and a Guajira is a country style song they would sing. Guajiras aside from flamenco is a cuban folk style, I think the flamencos took it from them.

Ahhh thank you. Maybe the place in colombia just means "the countryside" or something....but it may be a slang term for the region idk...why wouldn't it just pop up in goog trans.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 4 2014 22:54:31

Leñador

Posts: 5237
Joined: Jun. 8 2012
From: Los Angeles

RE: Does Guajira mean anything in sp... (in reply to El Burro Flamencuro)

Google translate sucks, it doesn't know any slang and I can't figure out "what kind" of Spanish it's supposed to know. My girlfriend tries to use it to txt me cute things in Spanish and it always comes out completely wrong and completely hilarious. Some of the nouns it picks are not "Mexican standard" or "Spanish Standard" so I don't know where it's deciding to pull these words from.

This website is great for slang:
http://www.asihablamos.com/

_____________________________

\m/

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 4 2014 22:59:44