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Author: L-chan

Nov 15th 2008 at 10:19:14 PM

Maybe I'm pushing the envelope, but for an awful coincidence, the Spanish equivalent to the C-word also begins with C: [[spoiler:coño]]. Its uses are relatively more lenient than the English Equivalents, but the Spanish C-word is more used as an expletive than as an insult or a word for the respective body part, and even in the first case its media apparitions varies wildly depending of the country. Spain's TV and cinema seems to be relatively open to its use as an expletive or as a sexual descriptive word, but rarely as an insult; in most Latin American countries the word rarely appears in TV except in shows aiming to be "risqué" (and the dubs of SouthPark and DrawnTogether), and its apparition in movies depends on how often the word is used in RealLife in the respective country, all of those mostly in the expletive way since the sexual meaning was lost or substituted by other words. Still, if you are aiming to uses the Spanish C-word as an insult, you must add a reference to your mother to it [[spoiler: as in "coño de tu madre"]]; ''that use'' is mostly banned de facto in almost all Spanish-speaking media no matter what the laws can say about it, so when it's used its because they are aiming to made an insult really shocking, or because its used in a stealth way who unvariably becomes controversial. This venezuelan troper remembers when a SketchShow ("Radio Rochela") made a couple of sketches about a man named Antonio (who in RL is often shortened to "Toño") whose excessive amiability [[TheMillstone always damaged the ones who received it]], and the punchline was the damage-inflicted screaming "¡es todo culpa tuya, Toño el Amable!". It was so transparent that the sketch didn't last. (Ironically, there is a chain of car-mechanic workshops who are named "Toño el Amable". IAmNotMakingThisUp.)