"title ¿Cómo Te Llama? is Spanish for ""How does [he/she/it] call you?"" or, more loosely, ""What is your name?"". The fact that the title is in Spanish may be a reference of Hammond's mother nationality (she comes from Argentina) On August 29, 2007, Albert Hammond Jr. announced on his MySpace blog he was recording his second album. He recorded for five weeks in Electric Lady Studios in New York City with his band of Josh Lattanzi on bass (of Ben Kweller and The Lemonheads), and Matt Romano (The Strokes' drum technician) on drums. Marc Philippe Eskanazi (guitar, Medium Cool, The"
"a sentence to denote irony. He was one of many, including Desiderius Erasmus, who felt there was a need for such a punctuation mark, but Wilkins' proposal, as was true of the other attempts, failed to take hold. Although it has now become rare, it is correct usage in Spanish to begin a sentence with an opening inverted exclamation mark (""¡"") and end it with a question mark (""?""), or vice versa, for statements that are questions but also have a clear sense of exclamation or surprise such as: (""Who do you think you are?!""). Normally, four signs are used,"
"in (12a). Gaano (from ""ka-"" + ""anó"") means ""how"" but is used in inquiring about the quality of an adjective or an adverb. The rootword of the modifier is prefixed with ""ka-"" in this construction (16a).Ilán means ""how many"" (16b). Kumustá is used to inquire how something is (are).(16c) It is frequently used as a greeting meaning ""How are you?"" It is derived from the Spanish ""¿cómo está?"". Magkano (from ""mag-"" + ""gaano"") means ""how much"" and is usually used in inquiring the price of something (16d). Paano (from ""pa-"" + ""anó"") is used in asking ""how"" something is done"
"Cyrillic or certain other scripts, a question mark at the end of a sentence identifies questions in writing. (In Spanish an additional inverted mark is placed at the beginning: ""¿Cómo está usted?"" ""How are you?"") As with intonation, this feature is not restricted to sentences having the grammatical form of questions – it may also indicate a sentence's pragmatic function. The most typical response to a question is an answer that provides the information indicated as being sought by the questioner. This may range from a simple ""yes"" or ""no"" (in the case of yes–no questions) to a more complex"
"adjectives. The comparative is formed with plu or min, the superlative with la plu or la min. Questions are formed by preceding the sentence with esce or by using one of several ""question words"", such as cual (what, which), ci (who), do (where), cuando (when), and perce (why). These same words are also used to introduce subordinate clauses, as are words such as si (if), ce (that), car (because), and afin (so that). Prepositions include a (at, to), de (of, from), ante (before, in front of), pos (after, behind), etc. Conjunctions include e (and), o (or), and ma (but). Complete"
"Inverted question and exclamation marks Inverted question marks (¿) and exclamation marks (Commonwealth English) or exclamation points (American English) (¡) are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences (or clauses), respectively, in written Spanish and sometimes also in languages which have cultural ties with Spanish, such as in older standards of Galician (now it is optional and not recommended) and the Waray language. They can also be combined in several ways to express the combination of a question and surprise or disbelief. The initial marks are normally mirrored at the end of the sentence or clause by the"
"of the document.) XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX have full Unicode support, and literal ¿ and ¡ characters may be input. In Windows, an inverted question mark is valid in a file or directory name, whereas the normal question mark is a reserved character which cannot be so used. Inverted question and exclamation marks Inverted question marks (¿) and exclamation marks (Commonwealth English) or exclamation points (American English) (¡) are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences (or clauses), respectively, in written Spanish and sometimes also in languages which have cultural ties with Spanish, such as in older standards of"
"book"",or even ""your book"" when speaking politely using the ""usted"" form of ""you"", while the informal form of ""you"" (""tú/vos"") would be ""tu libro"", with the gender of the possessor being made clear from the context of the statement. Pronouns referring to people (or any noun) in Spanish have gender – ""él"" for ""him"" and ""ella"" for ""her"". Only when referring to an indefinite antecedent is the neuter ""ello"" used, and since Spanish is a pronoun dropping language, it usually only appears in prepositional phrases, like ""para ello"", ""for it"". Grammatical person is inflected in verbs, so subject pronouns are"
"written Spanish—e.g. (""How old are you?""). The Real Academia also ordered the same inverted-symbol system for statements of exclamation, using the symbols ""¡"" and ""!"". This helps to recognize questions and exclamations in long sentences. ""Do you like summer?"" and ""You like summer."" are translated respectively as and (There is not always a difference between the wording of a yes–no question and the corresponding statement in Spanish.) These new rules were slowly adopted; there exist 19th-century books in which the writer uses neither ""¡"" nor ""¿"". In sentences that are both declarative and interrogative, the clause that asks a question"
"subject""), where each contestant answers questions about a given topic of their choice; ""La pregunta caliente"" (""The hot question)"", where contestants must answer random questions and choosing who, of the other two contestants, must answer them; ""El duelo"" (""The Duel""), where two contestants answer questions about a topic that changes daily; ""La parte por el todo"" (""The fraction for the Whole""), where the contestants must figure out what an image, piece of text or piece of music belongs to; ""La calculadora humana"" (""The human calculator""), where the contestant with the second highest score must answer seven basic arithmetic operations in"
"on familiar terms with was to address such a person as ""vuestra merced"" (""your grace"" originally abbreviated as ""v.m."") in the singular and ""vuestras mercedes"" in the plural. Because of the literal meaning of these forms, they were accompanied by the corresponding third-person verb forms. Other formal forms of address included ""vuestra excelencia"" (""your excellence"" abbreviated as ""ussencia"") and ""vuestra señoria"" (""your lordship/ladyship"" abbreviated as ""ussia""). Today, both ""vos"" and ""tú"" are considered to be informal pronouns, with ""vos"" being somewhat synonymous with ""tú"" in regions where both are used. This was the situation when the Spanish language was brought"
"meanings of its parts, and clichés (unlike idioms) would be completely intelligible to someone hearing them for the first time without having learned the expression beforehand. They are not completely free expressions, however, because they are the conventionalized means of expressing the desired meanings in the language. Thus, in English one asks ""What is your name?"" and answers ""My name is"" [N] or ""I am"" [N]; in Spanish one asks ""¿Cómo se llama?"" (lit. ‘How are you called?’) and one answers ""Me llamo"" [N] ‘I am called [N]’. The sentences ""¿Cómo es su nombre?"" and ""Soy"" [N], the literal renderings"
"to just ""que"", and this reduction is called ""queísmo"". Some speakers, by way of hypercorrection (i.e. in an apparent effort to avoid the ""error"" of ""queísmo""), insert ""de"" before ""que"" in contexts where it is not prescribed in standard grammar. This insertion of ""extraneous"" ""de"" before ""que"" — called ""dequeísmo"" — is generally associated with less-educated speakers. Spanish grammar Spanish grammar is the grammar of the Spanish language (""español""), which is a Romance language that originated in north central Spain and is spoken today throughout Spain, some twenty countries in the Americas, and Equatorial Guinea in Africa. Spanish is an"
"answer is necessarily expected and no doubt is being expressed. Sentences can also be marked as questions when they are written down. In languages written in Latin or Cyrillic, as well as certain other scripts, a question mark at the end of the sentence identifies it as a question. In Spanish, an additional inverted mark is placed at the beginning (e.g. ""¿Cómo está usted?""). Question marks are also used in declarative questions, as in the example given above (in this case they are equivalent to the intonation used in speech, being the only indication that the sentence is meant as"
"from the famous song """" by the Spanish 1960s pop band Fórmula V that is used as the series opening theme. In March 2002, during the first season, the title was changed to ""Cuéntame cómo pasó"" because ""Cuéntame"" was already registered. The series was created to celebrate the first 25 years since Spain's transition to democracy, and its didactic spirit is clearly evident in some of the episodes. In special episodes it includes documentary interviews with historical figures of the era speaking about how they experienced the assassination of then Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco or the death of Francisco"
"of an interrogative sentence or clause to indicate that a question follows. It is a rotated form of the standard symbol ""?"" recognized by speakers of languages written with the Latin alphabet. In most languages, a single question mark is used, and only at the end of an interrogative sentence: ""How old are you?"" This was once true of the Spanish language. The inverted question mark was adopted long after the Real Academia's decision, published in the second edition of the (Orthography of the Castilian language) in 1754 recommending it as the symbol indicating the beginning of a question in"
"Interrogatives in Esperanto In Esperanto there are two kinds of interrogatives: yes–no interrogatives, and correlative interrogatives. Yes–no questions are formed with the interrogative ""ĉu"" ""whether"" at the beginning of the clause. For example, the interrogative equivalent of the statement ""La pomo estas sur la tablo"" ""The apple is on the table"" is ""Ĉu la pomo estas sur la tablo?"" ""Is the apple on the table?"" A yes–no question is also normally accompanied by a rising intonation. In some cases, especially when the context makes it clear that the sentence is an interrogative, a rising intonation alone can make a clause"
"shift from ""usted"" to ""tú"" is desirable, he or she will confirm this by asking if it is acceptable: ""Nos tuteamos, ¿verdad?"" or ""¿Te puedo tutear?"" is fairly common. In Anglophone countries this would be parallel to asking if it is acceptable to call someone by their first name. In leftist political contexts, where everyone is to be equal, ""usted"" is rarely used. Conversely, in formal Spanish and hierarchical contexts (such as the Catholic church and the legal system), use of ""usted"" is routine. In the plural, in Spain (other than the Canary Islands and parts of western Andalusia), the"
"Spanish ""españón"" (from a presumed Vulgar Latin *""hispaniōne""), and the other on an Occitan term derived from a presumed Vulgar Latin *""hispaniolus"". Both Latin ancestor words are based on the place name ""Hispania"" (which evolved into ""España"" by regular sound changes); and both are marked with an asterisk to indicate that they are reconstructed, not directly attested. The dissimilation hypothesis, advanced by Ramón Menéndez Pidal, presumes that Latin ""Hispania"" was lengthened by the derivational suffix ""-ōne"" (which survives in other ethnonyms such as ""bretón"", ""borgoñón"", ""sajón"", and ""lapón""). The Old Spanish form ""españon"" is documented in works of the 13th"
"language, to the honor of the Spanish nation (""""dar noticia a los extranjeros del lenguaje español, y de su propiedad y elegancia, que es muy gran honor de la nación española""""). The lexicon consists of about 11,000 entries. Including words that do not have their own entry but are defined in sections treating other words, the number of etymologies rises to about 17,000 according to Martí de Riquer. The lexicon features gaps and inconsistencies in alphabetic order. Spelling reflects the instability of written Spanish prior to the establishment of the Spanish Academy, so that a single word may be spelled"
"problem posed by the alternate verb forms of Chilean ""voseo"" such as the future indicative (e.g. ""vay a bailar"" ""you will dance""), the present indicative forms of ""haber"" (""habih"" and ""hai"" ""you have""), and the present indicative of ""ser"" (""soi"", ""eríh"" and ""erei"" ""you are""), without resorting to any ad hoc rules. In Standard European Spanish the plural of ""tú"" is ""vosotros"" and the plural of ""usted"" is ""ustedes"". In Hispanic America ""vosotros"" is not used, and the plural of both ""tú"" and ""usted"" is ""ustedes"". This means that speaking to a group of friends a Spaniard will use ""vosotros"","
"said, a few assertions can be made: As for the second person familiar ""plural"", it can be said that northern and central Spain use ""vosotros"" and its verb forms (""vosotros habláis"", ""you [pl.] speak""), while the rest of the Spanish-speaking world merges the familiar and formal in ""ustedes"" (""ustedes hablan""). Usage in western Andalusia includes the use of ""ustedes"" with the traditional ""vosotros"" verb form (""ustedes habláis""). In Ladino, the second-person pronouns are quite different from those of Spain and Hispanic America. The forms ""usted"" and ""ustedes"" had not yet appeared in 1492 when the Jews were expelled from Spain."
"also be reversed, opening with a question mark and closing with an exclamation mark.) Nonetheless, even here the recommends matching punctuation: The opening question mark in Unicode is . Catalan and Galician also use the inverted opening question mark, though usually only in long sentences or in cases that would otherwise be ambiguous. Basque only uses the terminal question mark. In Armenian, the question mark (՞) takes the form of an open circle and is placed over the last vowel of the question word. It is defined in Unicode at . The Greek question mark () looks like "";"". It"
"is sometimes called in Spanish. In Central America, especially in Honduras, is often used as a formal pronoun to convey respect between the members of a romantic couple. is also used that way as well as between parents and children in the Andean regions of Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. Most speakers use (and the prefers) the pronouns and for ""direct"" objects (masculine and feminine respectively, regardless of animacy, meaning ""him"", ""her"", or ""it""), and for ""indirect"" objects (regardless of gender or animacy, meaning ""to him"", ""to her"", or ""to it""). The usage is sometimes called ""etymological"", as these direct and"
"""to know"": Because the correlatives that begin with ""ki-"" are also used to form relative clauses (similarly to many European languages) there is in theory a potential for ambiguity between indirect questions and relative clauses. In practice, however, confusion is very rare. Interrogatives in Esperanto In Esperanto there are two kinds of interrogatives: yes–no interrogatives, and correlative interrogatives. Yes–no questions are formed with the interrogative ""ĉu"" ""whether"" at the beginning of the clause. For example, the interrogative equivalent of the statement ""La pomo estas sur la tablo"" ""The apple is on the table"" is ""Ĉu la pomo estas sur la"
"influenced Salvadoran Spanish and voseo was conserved. ""Usted"" is the formal second person singular pronoun in Salvadoran Castilian. ""Usted"" is used in addressing foreigners formally, for acquaintances, and in business settings. Unlike nearby Costa Rica, ""usted"" is not the dominant second person pronoun for addressing a person. ""Tú"" is hardly used; the use of tú is limited strictly to foreigners. It is used in addressing foreigners familiarly and when writing correspondence to foreigners (again in familiar contexts). The definition for Caliche is an informal term for Salvadoran Spanish due to colloquialisms and unique indigenous lexical words that are different from"
"organizers switched off Chávez's microphone, he continued to interrupt as Zapatero defended Aznar. Juan Carlos leaned forward, turned towards his fellow head of state, and said, """"¿Por qué no te callas?"""" The king's rebuke received applause from the general audience. He addressed Chávez using the familiar form of ""you"". (In Spanish, ""tú"" and ""te"" are usually used in informal chat, among young people or when addressing close friends, family, or children, and can be perceived as insulting when used in other circumstances.) Shortly thereafter, he left the hall, when Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega accused Spain of intervention in his country's"
"Good morning (afternoon, evening) ""Dre kukwe (“dre gwe”)"" What’s up? ""Basakukwe."" Visiting. ""Mä kä ño?"" What is your name? ""Ti kä …"" My name is … ""Mä niki medente?"" Where are you going? ""Ti niki sete."" I´m going over there. ""Ti ta basare."" I am visiting. ""Mä medente?"" Where are you from? ""Ti Estados Unidosbu."" I am from the United States. ""Jän"" Yes ""Ñakare"" No ""Mä tua ño?"" How are you? ""Ti ta kuin"" I am fine. ""Ja tuaita"" See you. ""Ngöbö rika mäbe"" May God go with you. Spanish is the language of education and government, and is the"
"words, under the California implementation of the Uniform Commercial Code, the debtor's ""true last name"" was Juárez (his maternal surname). According to the Chicago Manual of Style, Spanish and Hispanophone names are indexed by the family name. In case there are two family names, the indexing is done under the father's family name; this would be the first element of the surname if the father's and mother's or husband's family names are joined by a ""y"". Depending upon the person involved, the particle ""de"" may be treated as a part of a family name or it may be separated from"
"the Spanish-speaking world (the practice of having the father's surname followed by the mother's surname, the two being connected by the particle ""y"", which means ""and"", such as ""Guillermo Cu-Unjieng y Araullo""). If the second surname starts with ""i"", ""y"", ""hi"" or ""hy"", the particle becomes ""e"", following Spanish rules of euphony, as in ""Eduardo Dato e Iradier"". Sometimed this second rule is overlooked. This practice changed when the Philippines became a United States colony in the early 20th century. The order was reversed to follow the conventional American form ""Christian name - Middle name - Surname,"" which in this"
"theories about the name have been advanced as well (see Hispania). The Romans called the inhabitants of Hispania ""hispani"" (singular: ""hispanus""), and the relevant adjective was ""hispanicus"". These terms, had they undergone regular sound change into Castilian, would have developed into ""España"", *""espanos"" (singular: *""espano"") and *""espánego"" or *""espango""—but in reality, only the first term exists in modern Castilian. As the branches of Vulgar Latin began to evolve into separate Romance languages, the term that would evolve into ""español"" began to be used to refer to these derivative languages (especially as opposed to the Arabic and Hebrew of the Moorish"
"interrogative pronouns. For example: In the second line, ""que"" helps to answer what ""qué"" was asking for, a definition of ""this"". Below is a list of interrogative pronouns and phrases with the relative pronouns that go with them: Spanish pronouns Spanish pronouns in some ways work quite differently from their English counterparts. Subject pronouns are often omitted, and object pronouns can appear either as proclitics that come before the verb or enclitics attached to the end of it in different linguistic environments. There is also regional variation in the use of pronouns, particularly the use of the informal second-person singular"
"""con"" combines with the prepositional pronouns ""mí"", ""ti"", and ""sí"" in the forms ""conmigo"" (“with me”), ""contigo"" (“with you”), and ""consigo"" (“with her-, himself”). These forms are derived historically from forms with the Latin preposition ""cum"" postposed to its object: ""mēcum"", ""tēcum"", etc. In an Ibero-Romance ancestor of Spanish, before the time of written records, an etymologically redundant ""con"" was prefixed to these forms. Compare the concept of inflected preposition. ""De"" is the most frequent preposition in Spanish, and in fact it vies with ""que"" to be the most frequent ""word"" in the language. It is most often translated in"