Great project! About the use of curse words. I never thought of the disuse of profanity as being a result of a conservative culture, rather that the culture is cultured ( muy culto ). While I was PCV in Guatemala, a fellow U of M Forestry grad was serving in Honduras. When he came to visit me, he commented on how it hadn't taken him very long to figure out that his dreadful Honduran Spanish was embarrassing to himself and every one he met. His everyday speech was laced from start to finish with profanity. He was impressed by the cultured Mayans.