Bad language
If you do not like foul or uncouth language do not read this post. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When the radio did it's exploding into life thing this morning the first song on was called A la mierda something like "fuck it!" or a bit more literally "shit it!" A couple of my pupils, lads about eleven years old express surprise by saying "What the fuck!?" in English. I heard the same phrase used by The Gran Wyoming, a well known TV presenter, who hosts an irreverent daily round up current affairs and news on a TV programme called el Intermedio. Motherfucker, is also a relatively frequent word on Spanish lips. It always catches me unawares. It's a word I would not use lightly. I put it down to a lack of understanding of the violence of these sort of phrases in English. Now I am not the best person to comment on the intricacies of Spanish but this overuse of expletives, foul language and ...