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Though there are plenty of examples to show that some namers of streets in Santa Fe are aware that in Spanish a definitive modifier follows the modified word, so that there are streets properly named, for instance, Camino Cerrito, Calle Lorca , or Plaza Fatima , there are other street names that betray oblivion to this grammatical rule, for example: Monte Vista Place or Cielo Vista Court where Monte Vista and Cielo Vista are supposed to mean respectively Mountain View and Sky View but, so far as they signify anything, really mean View Mountain and View Sky or Heaven . Even more common in Santa Fe are names in which adjectives fail to agree as to gender with the nouns they modify, for example: Calle Largo, Calle Lejano , or Calle Contento . This error may be due in part to the English tendency to reduce all unaccented final vowels to schwa and in part due to the fact that Spanish adjectives are listed in dictionaries in their masculine forms only.
Songs such as “Ella” (Her), “Camino de Guanajuato” (Road to Guanajuato), “La Vida no Vale Nada” (Life Has No Value), and “Llego Borracho el Borracho” (The Drunk Arrived Drunk) all elicit memories of fathers, grandfathers, and stories of Mexico.
Formally correct but pretentious is the street name Camino del Monte Sol , which before it was paved was sometimes irreverently called Camino del Muddy Soil . Then there is La Fonda, the rather famous Harvey hotel that superseded the old Exchange Hotel when the local Anglos woke up to the touristic value of Spanish nomenclature and architecture.
In “Camino de Guanajuato,” these existential words open the song:
Roads entering the settlement were called by the names of the towns or places to which they led, such as Camino de Pecos, Camino del Alamo, or Camino de la Canada . And eventually physical features such a main irrigation ditch ( acequia madre ) or the wall that enclosed the official buildings gave their names to streets associated with these features.
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