Usos de la palabra "madre" / Uses of the world "madre"
Every May 10th we celebrate Mother’s Day. It is a very important day all over América Latina and specially here, in México. As we refer to in our Spanish in Cabo Newsletter 2, on that day, the whole family honor the mother or the mamá mexicana. Y ou are going to see all Mexican restaurants full and you are going to listen The Mañanitas song being sung anywhere. Monumento a La Madre, México DF However, in the language the word “madre” is used in many different ways and almost always implying something negative. Let´s see what Joseph J Keenan in "Breaking Out of Beginner’s Spanish", University of Texas Press, (1994:130) says about the word Madre: “The mother is the paragon of the Latin family and is supposedly held sacred by the Latin male (especially). To show their deep respect for motherhood, Latin males have taken to inventing an entire vocabulary based on insulting other peop