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Answer (1 of 35): For the country of Colombia, as Mostafa El-Hoshy points out, people can use "Fulana/o de Tal" in normal conversation. I believe this is from Arab origin, plus "de Tal": this part would be from old naming conventions where people used to receive the name of the land from where th

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