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A la Madre, if it's not one thing it's another. Doesn't anybody in this world have anything better to do than sit around and create surveys? Hijo de su pinche puta madre, que pedo con tantas chingaderas?
The survey of 1,000 adults by the Consulta Mitofsky polling firm says one in 10 Mexicans say they don't curse at all. Upper class citizens report swearing more than the poor, while people in the heavily Indian southern part of the country curse less than northerners.-AP
First off the one out of ten Mexicans who claim not to curse at all are either liars or mutes. Hell my wife, the gringa, didn't swear growing up. I remember in the early years of our marriage she was constantly hounding me over my 'foul mouth'.
Sure, every once in a while you might of heard an occasional SHIT or DAMN slip out of her mouth, but that was about the extent of it, in English. In Spanish it's a whole different story, she can curse up, down, and sideways with the best of us. To be fair though, she generally reserves this little jewel of a talent for when she is in absolute, over the top, no turning back, blinding fury meltdown mode.
As luck would have it I'm the only one that has ever been able to piss her off enough to be on the receiving end of such vocal glories, so her secret's been kept pretty safe, at least until now. Ah que Caray!
I've never really thought about this (que hueva) but now that I have, I'm gonna have to say I'm befuddled; I don't know why we do it. For the most part, we, at least my generation, curse in social settings, amongst friends, in jest. We're not out in business meetings, parent-teacher confrences, or parks shouting obscenities. (ehh, bueno, casi nunca)
What I am seeing is a brazen cross over in our youth and their use of obscenities. I've seen teens greet their friends with "Que pedo Joto" as they slap eachother on the back and girls lovingly call eachother puta. A little extreme for my taste, but maybe I'm just an old pinche viejo tarado and simply too 'uncool' to understand these types of pendejadas.
The poll published Wednesday has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.Poll respondents used their own judgment as to what constituted swear words, but almost all were harsher than "caramba," roughly the equivalent of "gosh!" -AP
Wow! I don't think I've heard the word 'caramba' since 1983. And as for the poll having a 3.1% error margain, sorry to break it to you, but those numbers are way off. We curse alot more, PERO UN CHINGO MAS, than 20 times per day.
Let me put it to you this way. If Gilles de la Tourette were a country and not just a Sydrome, it would be Mexico. De verdad, estamos bien jodidos, Guey.
