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NYC teacher caught up in Spanish curse debate - Boston.com

NYC teacher caught up in Spanish curse debate - Boston.com

NYC teacher caught up in Spanish curse debate

By Cristian Salazar
Associated Press / November 28, 2010
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NEW YORK—It can be tossed off almost harmlessly like "damn" or dropped like an F-bomb.

On the streets of New York's diverse Spanish-speaking neighborhoods, it can be heard expressing joy, frustration and outrage.

Perhaps most notoriously in pop culture, it punctuated the film dialogue of "Scarface" in 1983.

Now a public high school teacher is suing the city after he was suspended and fined $15,000 for what school officials say was misconduct for using it in his Manhattan classroom.

The word, "cono," (COHN'-yoh) can be offensive. But that sometimes depends

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