I have to disagree with this notion that anybody would believe Mexicans have a reputation for formality. I'd say they're more widely renown in the Spanish-speaking community for precisely the opposite: an abudance of slang and, as the article points out, cursing.Does this offend me? No, cursing doesn't inherently offend me, but I might get offended if someone shouted, "***** you, *****!" at me for no apparent reason. It's obvious that some people curse so much that the words have absolutely no meaning when they come out of their mouths. I think people that use curse words essentially as punctuation annoy people more because the words are "offensive", but I'd point out that people who say words such as "like" a million times in a sentence annoy me just as much.When it comes down to it, superfluous cursing merely demonstrates a person's poor communication skills and unwillingness to expand upon their conversational vocabulary. It also seems like curse words tend to be used as conversation filler because people try to talk faster than their brain can form rational sentences.