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- Nairebis, on 11/04/2009, -8/+39Has anyone else never heard in their lives any sort of reputation for "formality" for Mexicans?
- sokalo, on 11/04/2009, -0/+17As with any culture whose language is derived from Latin, cursing is an art and is subject to interpretation depending on the context, some cursing might be extremely offensive by itself but given a context, it might even be considered artistic.
- jordantneff, on 11/04/2009, -3/+17Black Guy 1: Bitches be crazy, calling each other by cuss words.
Black Guy 2: Word *****, word.
PS: If you think this is a racist comment you are dumb and obviously didn't RTFA. - mandraque, on 11/04/2009, -4/+18nope, never. I have, in fact, heard the complete opposite several times.
- radiodemon, on 11/03/2009, -2/+16Me lleva la chingada, le chingo y le rechingo, con tanta chingadera me chingan desde hace un chingo. chinguero de chingados, chingándole a la chinga y un hijo `e la chingada nos para una rechinga.
Sorry but I won't even try to translate that. - yocouchdigga, on 11/04/2009, -0/+13tu madre es mi bicicleta
- Hetman, on 11/04/2009, -0/+11It reminds me of the ***** penn and teller. This lady was leading a cause to stop people from cursing. However she would do stupid little things that still meant the same as cursing. Instead of saying holy *****, holy cow. Stupid little things like that. Instead of flipping someone off she would flip someone off behind another hand. As penn and teller put it, it was complete humbug.
- bandomac, on 11/04/2009, -1/+12I would consider Mexicans to be very formal in situations we in America might see as more casual. My favorite line from the story is at the end when the polling company conjectured that maybe we shouldn't consider them cuss words at all.
- sokalo, on 11/04/2009, -0/+10That's actually a Spanish curse word, if you use it in Mexico, you'll get laughed at so avoid that one.
- Alli3388, on 11/04/2009, -0/+920 curses a day? ***** me, that's a lot.
- shnuffy, on 11/04/2009, -1/+10Roughly translated as: "My Chinese friend is mad."
- immatellyouwhat, on 11/04/2009, -0/+8Spanish laugh: jajaja
- Tenareth, on 11/04/2009, -0/+7Cursing is completely subjective, people just randomly choose to think that certain words got a little "too" direct in their meaning, so we create an artificial rule about them, making them taboo, and therefore more popular.
One of the dumbest things the human race does... - Snap65, on 11/04/2009, -3/+9I have. Go to Mexico and see for yourself.
- bandomac, on 11/04/2009, -1/+7***** you, you *****' *****!
- madeingermany, on 11/04/2009, -0/+5I'm going to Mexico soon. Thankfully, wikipedia can help me prepare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_profanity
¡Me cago en la leche! - isamu1122, on 11/04/2009, -1/+6Buried for requiring login to view article.
- HottLumpiaz, on 11/04/2009, -0/+5ay...la verga
- Snap65, on 11/04/2009, -0/+5I like watching Hollywood movies that contain Spanish curse words that other wise in English would cause people to ear muff their kids.
- inactive, on 11/04/2009, -1/+5I haven't, but that's because I live in San Diego.
- Fleagleman, on 11/04/2009, -0/+4omlette du fromage
- madeingermany, on 11/04/2009, -0/+4I'm pretty sure I get laughed at no matter, what Spanish cursing I try, but thanks for the warning ;)
Any recommendations? - bandomac, on 11/04/2009, -1/+5Very good translation; I will definitely us that phrase for a toast at the next Mexican wedding I attend.
- Malnilion, on 11/04/2009, -2/+6I have to disagree with this notion that anybody would believe Mexicans have a reputation for formality. I'd say they're more widely renown in the Spanish-speaking community for precisely the opposite: an abudance of slang and, as the article points out, cursing.
Does this offend me? No, cursing doesn't inherently offend me, but I might get offended if someone shouted, "***** you, *****!" at me for no apparent reason. It's obvious that some people curse so much that the words have absolutely no meaning when they come out of their mouths. I think people that use curse words essentially as punctuation annoy people more because the words are "offensive", but I'd point out that people who say words such as "like" a million times in a sentence annoy me just as much.
When it comes down to it, superfluous cursing merely demonstrates a person's poor communication skills and unwillingness to expand upon their conversational vocabulary. It also seems like curse words tend to be used as conversation filler because people try to talk faster than their brain can form rational sentences. - inactive, on 11/04/2009, -1/+4Puto.
- williemain, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3vios mio
- Xanderrr, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3I had to click to understand that :/
Then again, I was never good at cursing in spanish-- friends taught me to curse in english, parents never did in spanish :( - tgc1, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3Something about your bike?
- Idiggapony, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3I don't know what it means, but apparently it has something to do with surrealistic art and former 49ers quarterback Steve Young.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hpaHsQZBs4 - DirtyVicar, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3"When you meet someone, always say 'pendejos'. It means 'good friend'!"
-- Cheech, "Cheech & Chong's Next Movie" - WraTH017, on 11/04/2009, -2/+5I'm a hispanic (not Mexican), and I have never ever heard of this reputation for formality or politeness... in fact, I can't even begin to imagine why such a thing could ever be assumed by anyone.
Latin America has an affinity for fowl, crude, and abusive language, and Mexico has always been a world class leader in that category.
Me and my friends have been cussing like sailors since kindergarten. It's just the way things are down there, and a lot of it is influenced by Mexican media distributed across Latin America. - verynegative, on 11/05/2009, -0/+3Guey is not swearing at all. This is dumb.
- diggdong, on 11/04/2009, -1/+4bingo gringo
- bandomac, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3I hope nobody uses the hide profanity preference.
- tgc1, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3*****, I love swearing. It just makes me feel privileged to use the ENTIRETY of the english language without the need to reserve or restrain myself for outdated and non-sensical ideologies, which are rooted in religion.
El Mierda Fuego. <-- That's about all I know (Doesn't make much sense does it?). Among other useless phrases like "Uno agua por favor." or "Uno survesas por favor." - Krissam, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2isn't tu madre "your mom" ?
- junaeroplane, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2hahaha
- sokalo, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2That's only one, come on, there's plenty of curse word on the pond...
- KnightWhoSaysNi, on 11/04/2009, -2/+4Yes. In my experience they are.
- mandraque, on 11/04/2009, -1/+3me chingo tu madre
- beetrixi, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2Chingon!
- iheartbakon, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2***** you, you ***** *****.
- Idiggapony, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1***** New York Times. As you may know, you can grab a quick password from:
http://www.bugmenot.com/
But that still takes an extra twenty seconds or so. - badfish0116, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1dude what the ***** did you just make me watch???
- Idiggapony, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Well, in my own defense, it was kind of radiodemon's fault, bringing the whole thing up. I just found it on youtube.
- Lazydriver, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Did you mean cerveza(s)?
- Rain12913, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1"Me chingo tu madre" literally means "Your mother pisses me off," since it's not using the verb "chingar" (which is sometimes used as "to *****") but is instead using the reflexive verb "chingarse" (which is sometimes used as "to piss off", with the "se" portion being conjugated and placed before the verb to modify its object, who in this case is the speaker of the sentence and not the mother).
The correct way to say "***** your mother" is "Chinga tu madre". Ihavefrowned, "tu" would indeed be used rather than "su", since "su" is the more formal and polite way of saying "you/your", whereas "tu" is a less formal way of saying "you/your" and would be used in any rude insult. ("Chinga su madre" would almost be like saying "***** your mother, sir".)
If you're wondering, the way to say "My Chinese friend is mad" would be: "Mi amigo Chino está enojado." - gkiltz, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Best cuss-out I ever heard:
I had a boss who was an old marine.
We had one of those days you wish you never had, but everybody has. Nothing went really well. Some things went badly.
At the end of the day he said, "You guys work the way old people *****! Slow, sloppy and not too damn often!!!" - mixeao, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1pinche guey, mamame la verga hijo e puta
- mattypantsmaxx, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1JAJAJAJA
el ultimo chingon. ROFLMAO -
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