quijada

plural quijadas

1. jawbone (percussion instrument)

   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.

   2012, Yuna de Lannoy, “An Analysis of the Soundscape of Akira Kurosawa's Chambara Westerns”, in Kathryn Kalinak, editor, Music in the Western

plural Quijadas

1. A surname from Spanish.

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   “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.

   2012 December 24, Joshua Foer, “Utopian for Beginners”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2018