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"moreno"[edit]

I'm a little unhappy with my own use of "black" to translate "moreno", but I can't think of a better choice. Also, I am at a total loss for a way to render "gaucho matrero" (Borges's words, not Hernández's) into English. A "matrero" is literally a killer, and the word suggests a thug. "Gaucho matrero" is not an uncommon turn of phrase in Argentine Spanish. We have our equivalent in the cliche western outlaw, but the word "outlaw" is wrong, with its specific implication of being a person to be freely hunted and denied the protection of the law for his past crimes. -- Jmabel 20:53, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Moreno y matrero:

I) Moreno: en Argentina, hasta inicios de s XX se llamaba así -era la forma amable de hacerlo- a la población de evidente origen melanoafricano (casi toda esta población había desaparecido a fines de los 70 XIX, o se había mixogenizado con los caucásicos), moreno viene de moro,moros y este del latín maurii al parecer derivado de una palabra púnica. "Morenos" era el nombre de un regimiento militar del s XIX, constituido precísamente por descendientes de melanoafricanos que habían sido traidos esclavizados a América (entiendase: el continente americano -las "Américas"-), y que en Argentina se destacaron por participar en las guerras de la independencia. En Argentina del s XIX el moreno era muy querido y respetado por la mayoría de la población, y despreciado (por obvio racismo, entre algunos), en el caso del Martín Fierro se nota esa ambigüedad, el gaucho Martín Fierro (sujeto quizás real) agrede inicialmente a un moreno, se baten a duelo, mata a ese moreno en duelo...y luego, el bello libro gaucho, concluye con una payada con otro moreno (hermano del asesinado) en la cual Martín Fierro reconoce su culpa.

II) Matrero: era la denominación equivalente a bandido o fuera de la ley que se les daba a los gauchos (en muchísimas ocasiones de un modo arbitrario), un "matrero" podía ó no ser tenido por "killer", se le consideraba "matrero" por el sólo hecho de "estar fuera de la ley".

From the online Diccionario de la Real Academia

4. Argent., Bol., Chile, Perú y Urug. Fugitivo, vagabundo, que buscaba el campo para escapar de la justicia. Ú. t. c. s. Jclerman 15:48, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Por lo demás, quizás sea bueno recordar (siempre en el idioma original) el inicio del extenso poema que es el Martín Fierro:

Aquí me pongo a cantar/

al compás de la vigüela/ que al hombre que lo desvela/ una pena extraordinaria/ como el ave solitaria/ con el cantar se consuela.

José Hernández citado por El Gaucho José.

'improv battle'?[edit]

In the Plot section. What is that? If it means "improvised", it should be spelled out, but even then, I'm not clear as to what is intended. Myles325a (talk) 10:34, 3 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It was a bad translation. Fixed. It means a singing duel, where to poets/singers improvise in a duel to see who does best. It's a 19th century South American country-side custom. The singer is called Payador (a kind of minstrel). There is an article on it in Spanish in Wikipedia: es:Payada. -- Alexf^(talk) 11:14, 3 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong Classification[edit]

It appears as a "movie" when is retreived to other pages such as Facebook. This page is about the "book". Stratogustav (talk) 00:34, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]