Meaning of quijada | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from Spanish.
2. jawbone (percussion instrument)

Examples

“In the rest of the film, along with drums, the quijada is used diegetically as well as non-diegetically to bridge transitions between scenes, working as a musical punctuation mark.”

““Natural languages are adequate, but that doesn’t mean they’re optimal,” John Quijada, a fifty-three-year-old former employee of the California State Department of Motor Vehicles, told me. In 2004, he published a monograph on the Internet that was titled “Ithkuil: A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language.” Written like a linguistics textbook, the fourteen-page Web site ran to almost a hundred and sixty thousand words. It documented the grammar, syntax, and lexicon of a language that Quijada had spent three decades inventing in his spare time.”

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