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Rpsh Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

a quality known

Less well known to García Márquez’s legion of readers was his quick-witted sense of humor, a quality known in his native Colombia as mamar gallo (literally, “to suck rooster,” but meaning, in essence, to joke around).

What's a quality known? Is this a widely used rhetoric?
  

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" It's / a quality / known as/ something.

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His quick-witted sense of humor is a "quality." (Or a characteristic.) In Colombia, this particular quality is known as (or called) "mamar gallo."

It's not "quality known." It's / a quality / known as/ something.
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A quality here is the same as a personality trait or feature. Known means 'recognized'...here, by his native Columbians and possibly not by others. "Mamar gallo" is the quality (sense of humor) recognized as common by Columbians. I hope this helps.
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Eh!!!!!!!!! OMG! Got it, thank you!
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I have to say my left brain was going out to find my right brain that has run away from home then.... I just dropped the ball. Thank you!
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