As many of you know, our family spent three months living in Spain in 2007.   While there, it did not seem that the Spaniards cursed any more than any other nationality.

Perhaps I was wrong.  A court in Barcelona recently ruled that an employee who caleed his boss a “son of a bitch”  should not have been fired because the phrase is common in arguments in Spain and not that big a deal.

“The social degradation of language has caused the expressions used by the plaintiff to become commonly used in certain settings, especially in arguments,” Judge Pose Vidal wrote. She described his dismissal as a disproportionate punishment.

I’m not sure most American judges would take the same view.